*circa ‘1400s’*
(over 200 years after his death)
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(or “angelus”)
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‘greek’ —>
Ἰσαάκιος Β’ Ἄγγελος
Isaakios II Angelos
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(‘september 1156’ – ‘january 1204’)
(died @ ‘age 47’)
(because he didn’t pay his ‘crusaders’) (?)
(he allegedly died of ‘shock’ when his son was strangled to death in front of him by ‘disgruntled court officials’)
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*FATHER*
‘andronikos doukas angelos’
(byzantine aristocrat of the ‘komnenons dynasty’)
(died a year before his son became ‘emperor’)
(~age 50)
(while they were fleeing the ruling emperor)
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*MOTHER*
‘euphrosyne kastamonitissa’
‘byzantine aristocrat’
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*WIVES*
*WIFE #1* —>
“IRENE PALAIOLOGOS”
(died in 1185?)
(right when her husband becomes emperor)
(they had 3 children…)
2 DAUGHTERS —>
“ANNA-EUPHROSYNE”
“IRENE ANGELINA”
1 SON —>
“ALEXIOS IV ANGELOS”
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*WIFE #2* —>
(1185 – 1204)
“MARGARET”
(DAUGHTER OF THE “KING OF HUNGARY”)
2 SONS —>
“MANUEL ANGELOS”
“JOHN ANGELOS”
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*PREDECESSOR #1* —>
(1185)
“ANDRONIKOS I KOMNENONS
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*SUCCESSOR #1* —>
(1195 -1202)
“ALEXIOS III ANGELOS*
(his older brother)
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*SUCCESSOR #2* —>
(1204)
“ALEXIOS III ANGELOS*
(court official)
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‘age 29’ —>
(while reigning emperor ‘andronikos I komemnos’ was away from the ‘capital’ (‘constantinople’), his lieutenant attempted to arrest ‘isaac’)
(for participating in some ‘insurgency’ with his father against the ‘empire’)
(though neither of them were punished by the ‘emperor’ after the rebellions failed)
*bad move*
(so isaac killed the ‘lieutenant)
(then appealed to the populace to become the new emperor)
(although ‘emperor andronikos’ was a good leader in many ways, he was disliked for his ‘cruelty’ + his efforts to keep the ‘aristocracy’ obedient)
“12 SEPTEMBER 1185” —>
(and so when ‘emperor andronikos’ returned to the city, he was deposed by the masses and ‘isaac’ was crowned emperor)
(all in a day?)
(or had isaac been plotting for awhile?)
(‘andronikos’ was killed when he returned to ‘constantinople’ the following day)
(via (proto?) ’lynch mob’)
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(in 1195, his older brother ‘alexios III angelos’ deposed him and declared himself ‘emperor’)
(while isaac was on a ‘hunting expedition’)
(and the ‘bulgarians’ were closing in on the empire)
*INSTANT KARMA!!!*
(‘isaac’ was subsequently ‘blinded’ + ‘imprisoned’)
(after over 8 years of imprisonment, bitter soldiers of the ‘fourth crusade’ invaded ‘constantinople’ to depose ‘alexios’ and restore ‘isaac’ to the throne)
(although by this point he was mentally fucked and so his son ‘alexios IV angelos’ served as ‘co-emperor’ beginning ~1202)
(in ‘1204’, they were killed by ‘alexios V doukas’, a court official who then proclaimed himself emperor)
(but soon enough, he too would be blinded + executed by disgruntled crusaders)
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(“isaac II angelos” was ‘byzantine emperor’ from ‘1185’ to ‘1195’, and again from ‘1203’ to ‘1204’)
(his father ‘andronikos doukas angelos’ was a ‘military leader’ in ‘asia minor’ (c. ‘1122’ – aft. ‘1185’) who married “euphrosyne kastamonitissa” (c. ‘1125’ – aft. ‘1195’))
(“andronikos doukas angelos” was the son of ‘constantine angelos’ and ‘theodora komnene’ (b. ’15 january 1096/1097’), the youngest daughter of emperor alexios I komnenos and “irene doukaina”)
(thus ‘isaac’ was a member of the extended imperial clan of the “komnenoi”)
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