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By the time of Alexios's death in 1118, the Normans had been defeated twice (in 1085 and in 1108), the Patzinaks had been almost obliterated as a people in 1091, and the northwestern quarter of Asia Minor had been recovered from the Turks.
Alexius III Angelus was the Byzantine emperor from 1195 to 1203. He was the second son of Andronicus Angelus, grandson of Alexius I. In 1195 he was proclaimed emperor by the troops; he captured his brother, the emperor Isaac II, at Stagira in Macedonia and had him blinded and imprisoned.
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Alexios I Komnenos (Alexius Comnenus) was emperor of the Byzantine Empire from 1081 to 1118 CE. Regarded as one of the great Byzantine rulers, Alexios defeated the Normans, the Pechenegs, and, with the help of the First Crusaders, the Seljuks to put the empire back on its feet after years of decline.
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The young Alexios was imprisoned in 1195 when Alexios III overthrew Isaac II in a coup. In 1201, two Pisan merchants were employed to smuggle Alexios out of Constantinople to the Holy Roman Empire, where he took refuge with his brother-in-law Philip of Swabia, King of Germany.
Several conspiracies were revealed during Alexios's reign, the most dangerous of which aimed to replace Alexios with a descendant of the eleventh-century aristocracy. 49 That a negative portrait of Alexios could have circulated in Constantinople should not be surprising.
Apr 5, 2024 · Alexios I Komnenos was a Byzantine Emperor who reigned from 1081 to 1118. He is noted for his efforts to revive the Byzantine Empire's fortunes through military, financial, and administrative reforms.
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 Alexios V. At this point Isaac II died, allegedly of shock, while Alexios IV was strangled.
