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ALEXIUS II

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ALEXIUS II . (See also:

COMNENUS) (1167-1183), See also:emperor of the See also:East, was the son of See also:Manuel Comnenus and Maria, daughter of See also:Raymund, See also:prince of See also:Antioch, and was See also:born at See also:Constantinople on the loth of See also:September 1167. On Manuel's See also:death, Maria, who had been immured in a See also:convent under the name of Xene, had herself proclaimed See also:regent (1179-180), and handing over her son to evil counsellors, who encouraged him in every See also:vice, supported the See also:government of Alexius the protosebastos (See also:nephew of Manuel), who was supposed to be her See also:lover. The See also:young Alexius and his See also:friends now tried to See also:form a party against the empress See also:mother and the protosebastos; and his See also:sister Maria, wife of See also:Caesar See also:John, stirred up riots in the streets of the See also:capital. Their party was defeated(May 2,1182) ,but Andronicus Comnenus took See also:advantage of these disorders to aim at the See also:crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the regents. His arrival was celebrated by a barbarous See also:massacre of the Latins in Constantinople, which he made no See also:attempt to stop. He allowed Alexius to be crowned, but forced him to consent to the death of all his friends, including his mother, his sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest See also:voice in public affairs. The See also:betrothal in 1180 of Alexius with See also:Agnes, daughter of See also:Louis VII. of See also:France, a See also:child of nine, was quashed, and he was married to See also:Irene, daughter of Andronicus. The latter was now formally See also:pro-claimed as co-emperor, and not See also:long afterwards, on the pretext that divided See also:rule was injurious to the See also:Empire, he caused Alexius to be strangled with a See also:bow-See also:string (See also:October 1183). (J. B.

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