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Alexius III - LoveToKnow 1911 |
 | | (ANGELUS), emperor of the East, was the second son of Andronicus Angelus, nephew of Alexius I. In 1195, while his brother Isaac II. |
 | | During the fighting and carnage that followed Alexius hid in the palace, and finally, with one of his daughters, Irene, and such treasures as he could collect, got into a boat and escaped to Develton in Thrace, leaving his wife, his other daughters and his Empire to the victors. |
 | | Alexius was relegated to a monastery at Nicaea, where he died on some date unknown. |
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