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(Alexius Angelus) ( l k´s s, n´j l s) (KEY) , d. after 1210, Byzantine emperor (1195–1203). He acceded to power by deposing and blinding his bro...
d. 507, Visigothic king of Spain and of S Gaul (c.484–507), son and successor of Euric. He issued (506) at Toulouse the Breviary of Alaric for his R...
(Alexius Comnenus) ( l k´s s, k mn ´n s) (KEY) , 1048–1118, Byzantine emperor (1081–1118). Under the successors of his uncle, Isaac I, the empi...
(Alexius Comnenus), 1168–83, Byzantine emperor (1180–83), son and successor of Manuel I. His mother, Mary of Antioch, who was regent for him, alie...
(Alexius Angelus), d. 1204, Byzantine emperor (1203–4), son of Isaac II. When his father was deposed, Alexius fled to Italy and then went to Germany...
( m l´r k, ´m lr k) (KEY) or Amaury I ( mô´r , Fr. äm r ´) (KEY) , c.1137–1174, Latin king of Jerusalem (1162–74); brother and successor o...