Ruler · 1182 – 1204

Alexios IV Angelos

Lived 1182 – 1204. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 1203 – 1204.

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

Lived: 1182 – 1204; 22 years
In office: 1 year; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: deposed or killed; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 92nd of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

88 before

Andronikos I Komnenos1183 – 1185

Isaac II Angelos1185 – 1195

Alexios III Angelos1195 – 1203

Alexios IV Angelos1203 – 1204

Isaac II Angelos1203 – 1204

Alexios V Doukas1204

Constantine Laskaris1204 – 1205

18 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 1203 – 1204 · 1 year · came to it aged 21

Came to it: the nephew or niece of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell: by others; Morby does not call it a deposition

Isaac II died soon afterwards, possibly of old age or from poison, and Alexios IV was strangled (probably on 8 February).

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