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Alexios V Doukas
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans
Portrait of Alexios V from a 15th-century codex containing a copy of the Extracts of History by Joannes Zonaras
Byzantine emperor
Reign
27 January – 12 April 1204
Coronation
5 February 1204
Predecessor
Isaac II and Alexios IV
Successor
Constantine Laskaris (briefly?) Baldwin I (Latin Empire) Theodore I (Nicaea) Michael I (Epirus) Alexios I (Trebizond) Alexios III (Mosynopolis)
Born
Date unknown
Died
December 1204 (1205-01)
Spouse
Philokalina[1]
Eudokia Angelina
Dynasty
Angelos dynasty
Religion
Greek Orthodox
Alexios V Doukas (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Δούκας; died December 1204), Latinized as Alexius V Ducas, was Byzantine emperor from February to April 1204, just prior to the sack of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. His family name was Doukas, but he was also known by the nickname Mourtzouphlos or Murtzuphlus (Μούρτζουφλος), referring to either bushy, overhanging eyebrows or a sullen, gloomy character.[2] He achieved power through a palace coup, killing his predecessors in the process. Though he made vigorous attempts to defend Constantinople from the crusader army, his military efforts proved ineffective. His actions won the support of the mass of the populace, but he alienated the elite of the city. Following the fall, sack, and occupation of the city, Alexios V was blinded by his father-in-law, the ex-emperor Alexios III, and later executed by the new Latin regime. He was the last Byzantine emperor to rule in Constantinople until the Byzantine recapture of Constantinople in 1261.
^ Hendrickx and Matzukis, p.113.
^Choniates, p. 307, (see also: Head, p. 238) says that Alexios Doukas gained the name 'Mourtzouphlos' in his youth from his companions on account of his eyebrows meeting and overhanging his eyes.
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AlexiosV had fled the city. Two nominees presented themselves – Constantine Laskaris and Constantine Doukas (probably the son of John Angelos Doukas...
own brother Alexios III. The Angeloi were overthrown during the Fourth Crusade in 1204, by AlexiosVDoukas, a relative from the Doukas family. Several...
Andronikos I Komnenos, pressed their claims as Roman emperors against AlexiosVDoukas. The later Byzantine emperors, as well as Byzantine authors, such as...
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sack of Constantinople on April 1204, the emperor AlexiosVDoukas fled the city seeking refuge to Alexios III Angelos, but the latter blinded him and he...
"imperial tokens". Alexios III used the name Alexios Komnenos Angelos (Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός Ἄγγελος) prior to his accession but reigned as Alexios Komnenos, dropping...
of his mother Anna, the patriarch John XIV Kalekas, and the megas doux Alexios Apokaukos. During this civil war in 1343 Anna pawned the Byzantine crown...
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