- His
family name was Doukas, but he was also
known by the
nickname Mourtzouphlos or
Murtzuphlus (Μούρτζουφλος),
referring to
either bushy, overhanging...
-
natural causes shortly before Alexios V's coup
Alexios V
Doukas "
Mourtzouphlos" Ἀλέξιος Δούκας 27/28
January – 12
April 1204 (2 months and 16 days)...
- in
January 1204, and was
strangled on 8 February.
Alexios V
Doukas "
Mourtzouphlos" Ἀλέξιος Δούκας ὁ "Μούρτζουφλος" 27
January 1204 – 12
April 1204 (2...
-
driving force behind his coup was
probably the
ambitious Alexios Doukas Mourtzouphlos. With the
support of the capital's po****ce, the
plotters managed to...
-
appointment and
sought church sanctuary. A
nobleman Alexios Doukas (nicknamed
Mourtzouphlos)
became the
leader of the anti-crusader
faction within the Byzantine...
- crusaders' acts. The army
rebelled and
proclaimed the
general Alexios Mourtzouphlos Doukas emperor on 28 January 1204. Isaac II had
already died, and the...
- 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...
-
Venetian Doge
Enrico Dandolo met with the
newly crowned emperor Alexios V
Mourtzouphlos for
negotiations there.
Under Latin rule, the
monastery seems not to...
- in the
Treaty of 1282. In 1204,
Byzantine emperor Alexios V
Doukas Mourtzouphlos fled
Constantinople after crusaders invaded the city. Soon after, Theodore...
- France. Hendrickx, Benjamin; Matzukis,
Corinna (1979). "Alexios V
Doukas Mourtzouphlos: His Life, Reign, and
Death (?-1204)" (PDF). Ελληνικά [****enika]. 31:...
