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| | HighBeam Encyclopedia - Alexius II (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-12) |
 | | ALEXIUS II [Alexius II] (Alexius Comnenus), 1168-83, Byzantine emperor (1180-83), son and successor of Manuel I. His mother, Mary of Antioch, who was regent for him, alienated the population by favoring the Latin element in Constantinople. |
 | | In 1182 Alexius' cousin Andronicus, after instigating a massacre of the Latins, stormed the city, had Alexius sign the death sentence of his mother, and, as Andronicus I, became coemperor. |
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