Alexios IV Angelos, Latinized Alexius IV Angelus, was Byzantine emperor from August 1203 to January 1204. The researched lead for this figure is unusually thin; the events of his brief co-reign are a named gap for the depth wave rather than a claim written past what this source supports.
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Alexios III fled Constantinople in 1203 as Fourth Crusade forces installed Isaac II (restored) jointly with his son Alexios IV.
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A Constantinople mob proclaimed Nicholas Kanabos a rival emperor in January 1204 while Alexios IV still reigned; Kanabos did not actively rule and was executed shortly after by Alexios Doukas Mourtzouphlos.
The Constantinopolitan line ended with the 1204 Fourth Crusade sack of the city; Theodore I founded the Empire of Nicaea in exile, conventionally treated as the legitimate continuation of Byzantine imperial succession.
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1. Wikipedia: Alexios IV Angelos
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c. 1182
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February 1204 (aged 21) Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey)
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February 1204 (aged 21) Constantinople (now Istanbul, Turkey)
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Alexios IV Angelos (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Ἄγγελος, romanized: Aléxios Ángelos; c. 1182-February 1204), Latinized as Alexius IV Angelus, was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204.
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Alexios IV Angelos (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Ἄγγελος, romanized: Aléxios Ángelos; c. 1182-February 1204), Latinized as Alexius IV Angelus, was Byzantine Emperor from August 1203 to January 1204.
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Alexios Angelos / Αλέξιος Άγγελος / Aléxios Ángelos
Alexios IV Angelos: Gender
The researched lead for this figure is unusually thin; the events of his brief co-reign are a named gap for the depth wave rather than a claim written past what this source supports.
View the SourceWikidata: Alexios IV Angelos
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