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Alexios V Doukas
Sign in to saveAlso known as Murtzuphlus, Alexius V Ducas, Emperor of Constantinople, Alexius V Ducas Mourtzouphlus
Byzantine emperor
Key facts
- Reign
- 27 January – 12 April 1204
- Coronation
- 5 February 1204
- Predecessor
- Isaac II Angelos and Alexios IV Angelos
- Successor
- Constantine Laskaris (briefly?) , Baldwin I ( Latin Empire ) , Theodore I ( Nicaea ) , Michael I ( Epirus ) , Alexios I ( Trebizond ) , Alexios III ( Mosynopolis ) , Boniface I ( Thessalonica ) , Theodore Mangaphas ( Philadelphia )
- Born
- c. 1140 (estimation)
- Died
- December 1204 ( 1205-01 ) , (Modern day Istanbul University )
- Spouse
- Philokalina , Eudokia Angelina
- Dynasty
- Angelos dynasty
- Religion
- Greek Orthodox
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Byzantine Empire
- Place of birth
- Constantinople
- Place of death
- Constantinople
- Spouse
- Eudokia Angelina
- Occupation
- sovereign
- Position held
- Byzantine emperor
- Family
- Doukas
- Image
- 147 - Alexios V Doukas (Mutinensis - color).png
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- Commons category
- Alexios V Doukas
- date of death
- 1204-00-00
- medical condition
- blindness
- date of birth
- 1140-00-00
- place of burial
- Rhodes
- name in native language
- Αλέξιος Ε' Δούκας Μούρτζουφλος
- described by source
- New International Encyclopedia
Sources (1)
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Encyclopedic overview
Alexios V Doukas (Greek: Ἀλέξιος Δούκας, romanized: Aléxios Doúkās; 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. 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.
Origins and character
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Alexios V Doukas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.