Alexios Komnenos, II

1167 - 1183  (16 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

• Name	Alexios Komnenos
  Suffix	II
  Birth	10 Sep 1167
  Gender	Male
  Death	24 Sep 1183
  Siblings	1 Sibling
  + 1. Eudoxia Komnena,   b. Abt 1162   d. Yes, date unknown ▻ Guillaume VIII de Montpellier   2. Alexios Komnenos, II,   b. 10 Sep 1167   d. 24 Sep 1183  (Age 16 years) ▻ Agnès de France,  m. 1180
  Person ID	I79389	Geneagraphie
  Last Modified	12 Nov 2009

  
  

  Father	Manuel Komnenos, I,   b. 1122   d. 24 Sep 1180 (Age 58 years)
  Mother	Maria d' Antiochia,   b. 1145   d. 27 Aug 1182 (Age 37 years)
  Marriage	25 Dec 1161
  Family ID	F4943	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Agnès de France,   b. 1171   d. Aft 1240 (Age 70 years)
  Marriage	1180
  Family ID	F32904	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	6 Oct 2002

  
  

• Notes

  Emperor of Constantinople 1180-1183 Manuel's death in 1180, Maria, who became a nun under the name Xene ("foreigner"), took the position of regent (according to some historians). She excluded her young son from power, entrusting it instead to Alexios the protosebastos (a cousin of Alexios II), who was popularly believed to be her lover. Friends of the young Alexios II now tried to form a party against the empress mother and the pr Alexios II's half-sister Maria, wife of Caesar John ( Renier of Montferrat ), stirred up riots in the streets of the capital. Their party was defeated ( May 2 , 1182 ), but Andronikos Komnenos , a first cousin of Emperor Manuel, took advantage of these disorders to aim at the crown, entered Constantinople, where he was received with almost divine honours, and overthrew the government. His arrival was celebrated by a massacre of 80,000 Latins in Constantinople, especially the Venetian merchants, which he made no attempt to stop. He allowed Alexios II to be crowned, but was responsible for the death of most of the young emperor's actual or potential defenders, including his mother, his half-sister and the Caesar, and refused to allow him the smallest voice in public affairs. The betrothal in 1180 of Alexios II to Agnes of France , daughter of Louis VII of France and his third wife Adèle of Champagne and at the time a child of nine, had not apparently been followed by their marriage. Andronikos was now formally proclaimed as co-emperor, and not long afterwards, on the pretext that divided rule was injurious to the Empire, he caused Alexios II to be strangled with a bow-string (October 1183). During Alexius II's reign, the Byzantine Empire was invaded by King Bela III losing Syrmia and Bosnia to the Kingdom of Hungary in AD 1181, later even Dalmatia was lost to the Venetians. Kilij Arslan II invaded the empire in AD 1182, defeating the Byzantines at the Siege of Cotyaeum resulting in the Byzantine Empire losing Cotyaeum and Sozopolis . Alexios is a character in the historical novel Agnes of France (1980) by Greek writer Kostas Kyriazis . The novel describes the events of the reigns of Manuel I, Alexios II and Andronikos I through the eyes of Agnes