During Alexius II's reign, the Byzantine Empire was invaded by King Bela III losing Syrmia and Bosnia to the Kingdom of Hungary in AD 1181, later even Dalmatia was lost to the Venetians.

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* Alexius III, Byzantine emperor

* Alexius III of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond

The reigning emperor Alexius III had made no preparation.

The Crusaders occupied Galata, broke the chain protecting the Golden Horn and entered the harbour, where on 27 July they breached the sea walls: Alexius III fled.

* Alexius III Angelus, emperor

** July 17 – The armies of the Fourth Crusade capture Constantinople by assault ; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III flees from his capital into exile.

* Alexius III Angelus overthrows Isaac II and becomes Byzantine Emperor.

* Byzantine emperor Nicephorus III is overthrown by Alexius I Comnenus, ending the Middle Byzantine period and beginning the Comnenan dynasty.

In late 1185, he sent a fleet of 80 galleys to liberate his brother Alexius III from Acre, but it was destroyed by the Normans of Sicily.

Alexius convinced Boniface, and later the Venetians, to divert the Crusade to Constantinople and restore Isaac II to the throne, as he had recently been deposed by Alexius III, Alexius and Irene's uncle.

The Eastern Roman Emperor Alexius I Comnenus was less than pleased with their arrival, for along with the head of the Eastern Orthodox Church, Patriarch Nicholas III of Constantinople, he was now required to provide for the care and sustenance of the vast host of paupers for the remainder of their journey.

His paternal uncle was Emperor Alexius III Angelus.

In the winter of 1201 Boniface spent Christmas with Phillip in Hagenau, and while there also met with Alexius Angelus, Isaac II's son, who had escaped from the custody of his uncle Alexius III Angelus.

Theodore I Lascaris, the son-in-law of Emperor Alexius III Angelus, was proclaimed emperor, but he too fled, to the city of Nicaea ( today İznik ) in Bithynia, realizing the situation in Constantinople was hopeless.

The kingdom initially also faced attacks from the deposed Byzantine emperor Alexius III, who had fled to Corinth, although he was quickly defeated.

Alexius III was forced to pay him off, although the taxes he imposed caused frequent revolts against him, including rebellions in Greece and the Peloponnese.

* Book 2: The Komnenian revolt ( Envy against the family — Causes of uprising — The escape — Rebels proclaim Alexius as emperor-Melissenos revolts — Komnenians seize Constantinople-Emperor Nikephoros III Votaneiates abdicates )

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.

Alexios II Komnenos or Alexius II Comnenus () ( 10 September 1169 – 24 September 1183, Constantinople ), Byzantine emperor ( 1180 – 1183 ), was the son of Emperor Manuel I Komnenos and Maria, daughter of Raymond, prince of Antioch.

He was the long-awaited male heir, and was named Alexius as a fulfilment of the AIMA prophecy.

Adhemar negotiated with Alexius I Comnenus at Constantinople, reestablished at Nicaea some discipline among the crusaders, fought a crucial role at the Battle of Dorylaeum and was largely responsible for sustaining morale during the siege of Antioch through various religious rites including fasting and special observances of holy days.

In the course of a plot between Philip of Swabia, Boniface of Montferrat and the Doge of Venice, the Fourth Crusade was, despite papal excommunication, diverted in 1203 against Constantinople, ostensibly promoting the claims of Alexius son of the deposed emperor Isaac.

But the new Alexius IV found the Treasury inadequate, and was unable to make good the rewards he had promised to his western allies.

In January 1204, the protovestiarius Alexius Murzuphlus provoked a riot, it is presumed, to intimidate Alexius IV, but whose only result was the destruction of the great statue of Athena, the work of Phidias, which stood in the principal forum facing west.

In February, the people rose again: Alexius IV was imprisoned and executed, and Murzuphlus took the purple as Alexius V. He made some attempt to repair the walls and organise the citizenry, but there had been no opportunity to bring in troops from the provinces and the guards were demoralised by the revolution.

According to Tamar's historian, the aim of the Georgian expedition to Trebizond was to punish the Byzantine emperor Alexius IV Angelus for his confiscation of a shipment of money from the Georgian queen to the monasteries of Antioch and Mount Athos.

He shared the poor opinion of Alexius I Comnenus that had developed during the First Crusade, although he was also critical of some of the crusaders ' dealings with Alexius.

He was more impressed by Alexius ' son John II Comnenus ; he did not approve of John's attempts to bring the crusader Principality of Antioch under Byzantine control, but John's military expeditions against the Muslim states, the common enemy of both Greeks and Latins, were considered admirable.

* Agnes ( 1171 – after 1204 ), who was betrothed to Alexius II Comnenus ( 1180 – 1183 ) but married ( 1 ) Andronicus I Comnenus ( 1183 – 1185 ); ( 2 ) Theodore Branas ( 1204 )

Early in the reign of Alexius I Comnenus ( ruled between 1081 and 1118 ), Myra was again overtaken by Islamic invaders, this time the Seljuk Turks.

Sometime shortly before the year 1160 he was inspired by a series of events, firstly, after hearing a sermon on the life of St. Alexius, secondly, when rejection of transubstantiation was made a capital crime, thirdly, the sudden and unexpected death of a friend during an evening meal.

Soon afterwards he had the Empress Maria imprisoned and then killed ( forcing a signature from the child Emperor Alexius to put his mother to death ), by Pterygeonites and the hetaireiarches Constantine Tripsychos.

The relics of Metropolitan Alexius were first moved from the Church of St. Alexius ( which he had built ) to the Cathedral of the Dormition and then to another church in Moscow.

In 1933 Alexius served briefly as Archbishop of Novgorod ( for several months ) and then metropolitan of Leningrad.

Alexius Slav was married twice: first to an unknown illegitimate daughter of Henry of Flanders and then, after her death, to the daughter of a Petraliphas, brother-in-law to Theodore Komnenos Doukas, ruler of Epirus ( perhaps the sebastokrator John Petraliphas ).

Alexius appointed Nikon archimandrite, or prior, of the wealthy Novospassky monastery at Moscow, and in 1648 metropolitan of Great Novgorod.

Alexius kept Hugh in custody in a monastery until Hugh swore an oath of vassalage to him.

Her use of military terms and the astonishing number of details in the description of the turbulent reign of Alexius suggests that, despite Anna's internment in a monastery, she had access to official archives and maybe interviewed eye-witnesses.

To the name of St Boniface was now added that of St Alexius as titular saint of the church and monastery known as Santi Bonifacio e Alessio.

: PG 133: Arsenius monk in Philotheou monastery, Alexius Aristenus, Patriarch Lucas Chrysoberges of Constantinople, Theorianus Philosophus, Joannes Cinnamus, Manuel Comnenus, Emperor Alexius I Comnenus, Emperor Andronicus Comnenus, Theodorus Prodromus

A couple of new buildings were constructed in the monastery at the time of Despot Alexius Slav.

In this document, Alexius Slav called the monastery despot's and tsar's, hinting at his confidence and power.