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.

* February – Byzantine emperor Alexius IV is overthrown in a revolution, and Alexius V is proclaimed emperor.

* Anna Comnena writes the Alexiad, which is a biography of her father, Emperor Alexius I.

* October 18 – Alexius I helps defend Albania from the Normans ( the first recorded mention of Albania ), but is defeated at the Battle of Dyrrhachium ( Durazzo ).

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

Some argue that Avicenna anticipated Frege and Bertrand Russell in " holding that existence is an accident of accidents " and also anticipated Alexius Meinong's " view about nonexistent objects.

* In " Urban's Crusade -- Success or Failure "( Key, 1948 ) it is argued, indeed to the contrary, that the emperor was disturbed by Hugh's report and the disquieting rumors emitting from Antioch ( on Bohemond's intent and conduct ) and promptly set out to prepare another expedition: "... Alexius immediately began preparations for another expedition, and he furthermore sent envoys to the crusaders to announce its coming.

The oldest church bell in the world is one donated by Despot Alexius Slav to the metropolitan church in Melnik, Bulgaria, and dated to 1211-1216.

The Alexiad ( original Greek title: Ἀλεξιάς ) is a medieval biographical text written around the year 1148 by the Byzantine historian Anna Comnena, daughter of Emperor Alexius I.

* Book 3: Alexius as Emperor ( 1081 ) and the internal problems with Doukas family ( Maria of Alania and her son Constantine-Dismissal of her rumoured relationship with Alexius — About Alexius and his wife Irene-Alexius invents new ranks — Alexius publicly regrets for his soldiers crimes-Anna Dalassena ( Alexius mother ) is given imperial authority — About Anna Dalassena — Alexius ' military preparations and alliances — Turks spread in Asia Minor-Normans cross Adriatic Sea ).

* Book 15: Last expeditions, the Bogomils, death of Alexius ( 1116-1118 ) ( War against the Turks and the new battle tactics-Victorious battle-Peace with the Turks-Sultan is murdered by his brother-Alexius builds the Orphanage-Suppression of Bogomils, burning of their leader Basil-last illness and death of Alexius )

Tatikios and Alexius grew up together, and he is described as an oikogenes of Alexius ( that is, " from the same house ").

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 Komnenos, Latinized as Alexius Comnenus, may refer to:

People with the name Alexia, a feminine form of the name Alexius ( or Alexios ), include:

The Russian Orthodox Church uses the Old Church Slavonic version, Alexiy ( Алексiй, or Алексий in modern spelling ), for its Saints and hierarchs ( most notably, this is the form used for Patriarchs Alexius I and Alexius II ).

Thus the " Alexiad ", the pedantic work of Princess Anna Comnena, glorifies her father Alexius and the imperial reorganization he began ; the historical work of her husband, Nicephorus Bryennius, describes the internal conflicts that accompanied the rise of the Comneni in the form of a family chronicle ( late 11th century ); John VI Cantacuzene self-complacently narrates his own achievements ( 14th century ).

Alexius had negotiated with Henry and given him 360, 000 gold pieces in return for an alliance.

He took monastic vows at the Epiphany Monastery of Moscow around 1313, at which time he was given the religious name of Alexius.

The reason given was the legendary character of the written life of the saint The Catholic Encyclopedia article regarding St. Alexius remarked: " Perhaps the only basis for the story is the fact that a certain pious ascetic at Edessa lived the life of a beggar and was later venerated as a saint.

Labre, according to Catholic tradition, experienced a desire, which he considered was given to him by God and inspired by the example of Saint Alexius of Rome and that of the holy Franciscan tertiary pilgrim, Saint Roch, to " abandon his country, his parents, and whatever is flattering in the world to lead a new sort of life, a life most painful, most penitential, not in a wilderness nor in a cloister, but in the midst of the world, devoutly visiting as a pilgrim the famous places of Christian devotion ".

Patriarch Alexy II ( or Alexius II, ; secular name Alexey Mikhailovich Ridiger

Béla received a Greek name, Alexius, and the newly created courtly title of despotes which enjoyed the highest position of honor below the emperor.

Alexius, whose name at birth was Elephtherios, was a son of Fyodor ( Theodore ) Biakont, a boyar from Chernigov who settled in Moscow and founded the great Pleshcheev boyar family.

Following Wojciech Wijuk Kojałowicz and Macarius I, Volodymyr Antonovych writes that Algirdas took monastic vows several days before his death and was interred at the Cathedral of the Theotokos, Vilnius under the monastic name Alexius.

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.

St Alexius is mentioned in the Roman Martyrology under 17 July in the following terms: " At Rome, in a church on the Aventine Hill, a man of God is celebrated under the name of Alexius, who, as reported by tradition, abandoned his wealthy home, for the sake of becoming poor and to beg for alms unrecognized.

Five Byzantine Emperors, four Emperors of Trebizond and numerous other eastern European and Russian personalities have borne his name ; see Alexius.

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.

Patriarch Alexy I ( Alexius I,, secular name Sergey Vladimirovich Simanskiy, ; – April 17, 1970 ) was the 13th Patriarch of Moscow and All Rus, Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church ( ROC ) between 1945 and 1970.

Boniface and Alexius on the Aventine, with Radim adopting the name Gaudencius or Gaudentius.

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.

Alexios IV Angelos ( or Alexius IV Angelus ) () ( c. 1182 – February 8, 1204 ) was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204.

Around 1420 Jahan Shah married the daughter of Alexios IV of Trebizond and Theodora Kantakouzene, part of the agreement being that Alexius would continue paying to the Kara Koyunlu the tribute that Trebizond had formerly paid to Timur.

His most important work, Extracts of History (, ), in eighteen books, extends from the creation of the world to the death of Alexius ( 1118 ).

Tatikios or Taticius (, died after 1099 ) was a Byzantine general during the reign of Alexius I Comnenus.

Alexius Slav (, ) was a Bulgarian noble ( болярин, bolyarin ) of the 12th and 13th century and a descendant of the Asen dynasty, a nephew of the first three Asen brothers.

Some philosophers, such as Alexius Meinong have argued that there are two senses of the verb " exists ", exemplified by the sentence " there are things that do not exist ".

Famous individuals connected with Edessa include: Jacob Baradaeus, the real chief of the Syriac Miaphysites known after him as Jacobites ; Stephen Bar Sudaïli, monk and pantheist, to whom was owing, in Palestine, the last crisis of Origenism in the 6th century ; Jacob, Bishop of Edessa, a fertile writer ( d. 708 ); Theophilus the Maronite, an astronomer, who translated into Syriac verse Homer's Iliad and Odyssey ; the anonymous author of the Chronicon Edessenum ( Chronicle of Edessa ), compiled in 540 ; the writer of the story of " The Man of God ", in the 5th century, which gave rise to the legend of St. Alexius, also known as Alexius of Rome ( because exiled Eastern monks brought his cult and bones to Rome in the 10th century ).

His father was a " Saracen ", probably meaning a Turk, who was captured by Alexius ' father John Comnenus and served as a slave in the Comnenus household.

On July 21, 2005, the feast day of the holy icon " Theotokos of Kazan ", in the presence of the crowd of 10, 000 pilgrims, Patriarch Alexius II and Mintimer Shaeymiev placed at the newly-restored Annunciation Cathedral the holiest copy of the long-lost icon, which had been returned to Russia by Pope John Paul II shortly before his death.

During a stay at Philippopolis, Alexius argued with the sect bringing most if not all, back to the Church ( so his daughter: " Alexias ", XV, 9 ).