Editing Alexios II Komnenos (section)

{{short description|Byzantine emperor from 1180 to 1183}}
{{for|the emperor of Trebizond|Alexios II of Trebizond}}
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{{Infobox royalty
|name            = Alexios II Komnenos
|succession      = [[Byzantine emperor]]
|image= 142 - Alexios II Komnenos (Mutinensis - color).png
|caption         = Portrait of Alexios II from a [[Mutinensis gr. 122|15th-century codex]] containing a copy of the ''Extracts of History'' by [[Joannes Zonaras]]
|reign           = 24 September 1180{{snd}}September 1183
|coronation      = 1171 ''as co-emperor''
|cor-type        = [[Coronation of the Byzantine emperor|Coronation]]
|predecessor     = [[Manuel I Komnenos]]
|successor       = [[Andronikos I Komnenos]]
|spouse          = {{marriage|[[Agnes of France, Byzantine Empress|Anna of France]]|1180}}
|full name       =
|house           = [[Komnenos]]
|house-type      = Dynasty
|father          = [[Manuel I Komnenos]]
|mother          = [[Maria of Antioch]]
|birth_date      = {{Birth date|1169|9|14|df=y}}
|birth_place     = [[Constantinople]]<br />(now [[Istanbul]], [[Turkey]])
|death_date      = 	September 1183 (aged 14)
|death_place     = [[Constantinople]] 
|burial_place    =
|title           = [[List of Byzantine emperors|Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans]]}}

'''Alexios II Komnenos''' ({{langx|el|Ἀλέξιος Κομνηνός|Aléxios Komnēnós}}; 14 September 1169<ref>{{Citation | last=Wirth | first=Peter | title=Wann wurde Kaiser Alexios II. geboren? [When was Emperor Alexios II born?] | journal=[[Byzantinische Zeitschrift]] | volume=49 | year=1956 | pages=65–67 | doi=10.1515/byzs.1956.49.1.65| s2cid=193204437 }}</ref><ref>{{Citation | translator-last=Magoulias | translator-first=Harry J. | title=O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniates | publisher=Wayne State University Press | place=Detroit | year=1984 | isbn=0-8143-1764-2 }}, p. 383</ref><ref name=odb>{{Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium}}</ref>{{rp|64}}{{efn|Alternative dates of birth are 10 September 1169,<ref name="EB1911"/> or a more vague 1168, based on [[William of Tyre]]'s statement that Alexios was 13 in 1180<ref>{{Citation | editor-last=van Dieten | editor-first=J. L. | title=Nicetae Choniatae historia | publisher=De Gruyter | place=Berlin | year=1975 }}, p. 169</ref>}}{{snd}}September 1183), Latinized '''Alexius II Comnenus''', was [[Byzantine emperor]] from 1180 to 1183. He ascended to the throne as a [[Minor (law)|minor]]. For the duration of his short reign, the imperial power was ''[[de facto]]'' held by [[regents]].