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Died c. 1210. Byzantine emperor 1195-1203. He
gained power by deposing and blinding his
brother Isaac II, but Isaac's Venetian allies
enabled him and his son Alexius IV to regain
power as co-emperors.
Alexius IV, (Angelos) 1182-1204.
Byzantine emperor from 1203, when, with the
aid of the army of the Fourth Crusade, he
deposed his uncle Alexius III. He soon lost
the support of the Crusaders (by that time
occupying Constantinople), and he was
overthrown and murdered by another Alexius,
Alexius Mourtzouphlus (son-in-law of Alexius
III) in 1204, an act which the Crusaders used
as a pretext to sack the city the same year.