Ruler · 1153 – 1211

Alexios III Angelos

Lived 1153 – 1211. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 1195 – 1203.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1153 – 1211; 58 years
In office: 8 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: deposed or killed; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 91st of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

87 before

Alexios II Komnenos1180 – 1183

Andronikos I Komnenos1183 – 1185

Isaac II Angelos1185 – 1195

Alexios III Angelos1195 – 1203

Alexios IV Angelos1203 – 1204

Isaac II Angelos1203 – 1204

Alexios V Doukas1204

19 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1195 – 1203 · 8 years · came to it aged 42

Came to it: seized powerthe sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell: by others

In March 1195 while Isaac II was away hunting in Thrace, Alexios was acclaimed as emperor by the troops with the covert support of his wife Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.

Later, Alexios V was blinded and deserted by his father-in-law, who fled from the crusaders into Thessaly.

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