Alexios V Doukas

1169 – 1204 · Generation XXXII · Emperor (r. 1204) · Doukas

Alexios (AD null – 1204). Emperor (r. 1204). Married Eudokia around AD 1204. Mourtzouphlos; seized throne during the Fourth Crusade, executed after the fall of the city. Mourtzouphlos, they called him — a nickname traced either to the heavy brows that overhung his eyes or to a dark, brooding temperament. Whatever its origin, the man behind it fought harder for Constantinople than the emperors he destroyed: he strengthened the walls, led sorties sword in hand against the crusaders, and won the mass of the populace to his side even as the city's elite turned from him. It was not enough. After the fall he was blinded by his own father-in-law, the ex-emperor Alexios III, and the new Latin regime later condemned him and hurled him to his death from the Column of Theodosius. No Byzantine emperor would rule in Constantinople again until the city's recovery in 1261.

One of 13 people of Doukas (1006–1303) in this archive. A great civil house that took the throne between the Macedonians and the Komnenoi.

Partners

Married Eudokia Angelina (1176 – ?) in 1204

Life

1169 — Born
1204 — Married Eudokia
1204 — Died