biography
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Alexius V
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in full Alexius Ducas Mourtzouphlos
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| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (d.1204)
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| biography:
| Byzantine emperor (1204), the son-in-law of Alexius III. In 1204 he overthrew the emperors Isaac II and his son Alexius IV, who had been reinstated as co-emperors (1203) by the Latin crusaders, causing the sack of Constantinople by the army of the Fourth Crusade. He was deposed and killed, and Baldwin I was elected by the crusaders as Latin emperor of Constantinople. |
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