Isaac II Angelos
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Isaac II Angelos or Angelus was Byzantine Emperor from 1185 to 1195, and co-Emperor with his son Alexios IV Angelos from 1203 to 1204. In an 1185 revolt against the Emperor Andronikos Komnenos, Isaac
Killing of Stephen Hagiochristophorites, c. 1473, miniature by Jean Colombe in Les Passages d'outremer, BNF.
Alexios V Doukas
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Alexios V Doukas, 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 w
Isaac II Angelos
…his vacillation caused him to lose the support of both his crusader allies and his subjects. At the end of January 1204, the influential court official Alexios Doukas Mourtzouphlos took advantage of riots in the capital to imprison Alexios IV and seize the throne as Alexios V. At this point Isaac II died, allegedly of shock, while…
Miniature from a 13th-century chronicle of Niketas Choniates.
The siege of Constantinople in 1204, by Palma il Giovane
Alexios V negotiating with Doge Enrico Dandolo, by Gustave Doré