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Alexios III Angelos
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
Miniature portrait of Alexios III (from a 15th-century codex containing a copy of the Extracts of History by Joannes Zonaras)
Byzantine emperor
Reign
8 April 1195 – 18 July 1203
Predecessor
Isaac II Angelos
Successor
Isaac II Angelos Alexios IV Angelos
Born
c. 1153 (1153)
Died
1211 (Aged 58)
Spouse
Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera
Issue
Eirine Angelina Anna Komnene Angelina Eudokia Angelina
Kaykhusraw I (adopted)[1]
Names
Alexios Angelos
Regnal name
Alexios Komnenos
Dynasty
Angelos
Father
Andronikos Doukas Angelos
Mother
Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa
Religion
Greek Orthodox
Alexios III Angelos (Medieval Greek: Ἀλέξιος Ἄγγελος; c. 1153 – 1211), Latinized as Alexius III Angelus, was Byzantine Emperor from March 1195 to 17/18 July 1203.[2] He reigned under the name Alexios Komnenos (Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός) associating himself with the Komnenos dynasty (from which he was descended cognatically).
A member of the extended imperial family, Alexios came to the throne after deposing, blinding and imprisoning his younger brother Isaac II Angelos. The most significant event of his reign was the attack of the Fourth Crusade on Constantinople in 1203, on behalf of Alexios IV Angelos.
Alexios III took over the defence of the city, which he mismanaged, and then fled the city at night with one of his three daughters. From Adrianople, and then Mosynopolis, he attempted unsuccessfully to rally his supporters, only to end up a captive of Marquis Boniface of Montferrat. He was ransomed and sent to Asia Minor where he plotted against his son-in-law Theodore I Laskaris, but was eventually captured and spent his last days confined to the Monastery of Hyakinthos in Nicaea, where he died.
^Korobeinikov, Dimitri, Byzantium and the Turks in the Thirteenth Century, Oxford Studies in Byzantium (Oxford, 2014), pp. 122-124
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