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Alexios and V
Alexios attempted to organize a resistance to the new regime from Adrianople and then Mosynopolis, where he was joined by the later usurper Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos in April 1204, after the definitive fall of Constantinople to the crusaders and the establishment of the Latin Empire.
At first Alexios III received Alexios V well, even allowing him to marry his daughter Eudokia Angelina.
Later Alexios V was blinded and deserted by his father-in-law, who fled from the crusaders into Thessaly.
* Eudokia Angelina, who married ( 1 ) King Stefan I Prvovenčani of Serbia, then ( 2 ) Emperor Alexios V Doukas, and ( 3 ) Leo Sgouros, ruler of Corinth.
Alexios V Doukas was crowned in early February 1204.
After his coronation, Alexios V began to strengthen the defenses of Constantinople and ended negotiations with the Latins.
The crusaders ' second attack proved too strong to repel, and Alexios V fled into Thrace on the night of 12 April 1204, accompanied by Eudokia Angelina and her mother Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.
The refugees reached Mosynopolis, the base of the deposed emperor Alexios III Angelos, where they were initially well received, and Alexios V married Eudokia Angelina.
Abandoned by his supporters and enemies alike, Alexios V was captured near Mosynopolis by the advancing Latins under Thierry de Loos in November 1204.
Brought back to Constantinople, Alexios V was condemned to death for treason against Alexios IV, and was thrown from the top of the Column of Theodosius.
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At the end of January, 1204, the influential court official Alexios Doukas Mourtzouphlos took advantage of riots in the capital to imprison Alexios IV and seize the throne as Emperor Alexios V. At this point Isaac II died, allegedly of shock, while Alexios IV was strangled on 28 or 29 January.
Alexios Doukas was proclaimed emperor as Alexios V. During Alexios IV's brief reign, the empire lost its territories along the Black Sea coast to the Empire of Trebizond.

Alexios and Doukas
While the Byzantine troops were assembling for the expedition, Alexios was approached by the Doukas faction at court, who convinced him to join a conspiracy against Nikephoros III.
During this time, Alexios was rumored to be the lover of Empress Maria of Alania, the daughter of King Bagrat IV of Georgia, who had been successively married to Michael VII Doukas and his successor Nikephoros III Botaneiates, renowned for her beauty.
However, his mother consolidated the Doukas family connection by arranging the Emperor's marriage to Irene Doukaina, granddaughter of the Caesar John Doukas, the uncle of Michael VII, who would not have supported Alexios otherwise.
As a measure intended to keep the support of the Doukai, Alexios restored Constantine Doukas, the young son of Michael VII and Maria, as co-emperor and a little later betrothed him to his own first-born daughter Anna, who moved into the Mangana Palace with her fiancé and his mother.
Alexios became estranged from Maria, who was stripped of her imperial title and retired to a monastery, and Constantine Doukas was deprived of his status as co-emperor.
Trying to escape Boniface's " protection ", Alexios III attempted to seek shelter with Michael I Komnenos Doukas, the ruler of Epirus, in 1205.
Alexios Doukas emerged as a leader of the anti-Latin movement and personally led some skirmishes against the crusaders.
When the populace rebelled in late January 1204, the emperors barricaded themselves in the palace and entrusted Alexios Doukas with a mission to seek help from the crusaders.
Instead, Alexios Doukas used his access to the palace to arrest the emperors.
Alexios Doukas
Alexios Doukas
Michael VIII Palaiologos was the son of the megas domestikos Andronikos Doukas Komnenos Palaiologos by Theodora Angelina, the granddaughter of Emperor Alexios III Angelos and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina.
As Alexios was entrusted with substantial armed forces to combat the impending Norman invasion, the Doukas faction, led by the Caesar John, conspired to overthrow Nikephoros and replace him with Alexios.

Alexios and surnamed
Manuel I Megas Komnenos ( Greek: Μανουήλ Α ΄ Μέγας Κομνηνός, Manouēl I Megas Komnēnos ) ( c. 1218 March 1263 ), Emperor of Trebizond from 1238 to 1263, surnamed the " Great Captain ", was the second son of Alexios I, the first emperor of Trebizond, and Theodora Axuchina.

Alexios and Mourtzouphlos
Alexios IV was soon strangled by Alexios Doukas Mourtzouphlos, the lover of Euphrosyne's daughter Eudokia, who then proclaimed himself emperor as Alexios V. In April 1204 Euphrosyne fled the city along with her daughter and Alexios V, and they made their way to Mosynopolis, where Euphrosyne's husband Alexios III had taken refuge.

Alexios and (,
Alexios I Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus (, 1056 15 August 1118 — note that some sources list his date of birth as 1048 ), was Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118, and although he was not the founder of the Komnenian dynasty, it was during his reign that the Komnenos family came to full power.
Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (, polytonic, " defender ", cf.
Anna Komnene, Latinized as Comnena (, Anna Komnēnē ; December 1, 1083 1153 ) was a Greek princess, scholar, doctor, hospital administrator, and the daughter of Emperor Alexios I Komnenos of Byzantium and Irene Doukaina.
Alexey ( Aleksey ) (, ) is a Russian male first name deriving from the Greek Alexios ( Αλέξιος ), meaning " Defender ", and thus of the same origin as the Latin Alexius.
Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina or better Kamatera (, 1211 ) was the wife of the Byzantine Emperor Alexios III Angelos.
Irene Doukaina or Ducaena (, Eirēnē Doukaina ) ( February 19, 1123 or 1133 ) was the wife of the Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos, and the mother of the emperor John II Komnenos and of the historian Anna Komnene.

Alexios and d
The mother of Alexios, Anna Dalassena, was to play a prominent role in this coup d ' état of 1081, along with the current empress, Maria of Alania.
* 1169 Alexios II Komnenos, Byzantine emperor ( d. 1183 )
* October 5 Alexios III of Trebizond ( d. 1390 )
* Alexios Komnenos ( d. 1136 ), son of Isaac Komnenos
* Alexios Komnenos ( d. 1183 ), lover of the Empress Maria Komnene and leader of her regency council
* Alexios Komnenos ( d. 1187 ), son of John Komnenos, Duke of Cyprus
* Alexios Komnenos ( d. 1188 ), illegitimate son of Manuel I Komnenos
* Alexios V Doukas ( Ἀλέξιος Δούκας Μούρτζουφλος, d. December 1205 ) was Byzantine emperor ( 5 February 12 April 1204 ) during the second and final siege of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade.

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