Editing Alexios V Doukas (section)

{{short description|Byzantine emperor in 1204}}
{{redirect|Alexios V|the 15th-century Emperor of Trebizond|Alexios V of Trebizond}}
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| title        = [[Basileus|Emperor]] and [[Autokrator|Autocrat]] of the [[Rhomaioi|Romans]]
| name         = Alexios V Doukas
| image        = 147 - Alexios V Doukas (Mutinensis - color).png
| caption      = Portrait of Alexios V from a [[Mutinensis gr. 122|15th-century codex]] containing a copy of the ''Extracts of History'' by [[Joannes Zonaras]]
| succession   = [[Byzantine emperor]]
| reign        = 27 January – 12 April 1204
| coronation   = 5 February 1204
| predecessor  = [[Isaac II Angelos]] and [[Alexios IV Angelos]]
| successor    = [[Constantine Laskaris]] {{small|(briefly?)}}<br />[[Baldwin I of Constantinople|Baldwin I]] {{small|([[Latin Empire]])}}<br />[[Theodore I Laskaris|Theodore I]] {{small|([[Empire of Nicaea|Nicaea]])}}<br />[[Michael I Komnenos Doukas|Michael I]] {{small|([[Despotate of Epirus|Epirus]])}}<br />[[Alexios I of Trebizond|Alexios I]] {{small|([[Empire of Trebizond|Trebizond]])}}<br />[[Alexios III Angelos|Alexios III]] {{small|([[Mosynopolis]])}}<br>
[[Boniface I, Marquis of Montferrat|Boniface I]] ([[Kingdom of Thessalonica|Thessalonica]])
| spouse       = Philokalina<ref> Hendrickx and Matzukis, p.113. </ref> <br /> 
[[Eudokia Angelina]]
| dynasty      = [[Angelos|Angelos dynasty]]
| birth_date   =
| death_date   = {{death-date|December 1204}}
| death_place  = (Modern day [[Istanbul University]])
| religion     = [[Greek Orthodox]]
}}
'''Alexios V Doukas''' ({{langx|el|Ἀλέξιος Δούκας|Aléxios Doúkās}}; died December 1204), [[Romanization of Greek|Latinized]] as '''Alexius V Ducas''', was [[Byzantine emperor]] from February to April 1204, just prior to the [[sack of Constantinople]] by the participants of the [[Fourth Crusade]]. His family name was [[Doukas]], but he was also known by the nickname '''Mourtzouphlos''' or '''Murtzuphlus''' ({{lang|grc|Μούρτζουφλος}}), referring to either bushy, overhanging eyebrows or a sullen, gloomy character.<ref>Choniates, p. 307, (see also: Head, p. 238) says that Alexios Doukas gained the name 'Mourtzouphlos' in his youth from his companions on account of his eyebrows meeting and overhanging his eyes.</ref> He achieved power through a [[Coup d'état#Palace coup|palace coup]], killing his predecessors in the process. Though he made vigorous attempts to defend Constantinople from the crusader army, his military efforts proved ineffective. His actions won the support of the mass of the populace, but he alienated the elite of the city. Following the fall, sack, and occupation of the city, Alexios V was [[Political mutilation in Byzantine culture|blinded]] by his father-in-law, the ex-emperor [[Alexios III Angelos|Alexios III]], and later executed by the new [[Latin Empire|Latin regime]]. He was the last Byzantine emperor to rule in Constantinople until the Byzantine [[recapture of Constantinople]] in 1261.