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=== Regency of Andronikos and death === On 16 May 1182 Andronikos, posing as Alexios' protector, officially restored him on the throne.<ref name=odb/>{{rp|64}} As for 1180, the young emperor was uninterested in ruling matters, and Andronikos effectively acted as the [[power behind the throne]], not allowing Alexios any voice in public affairs. One after another, Andronikos suppressed most of Alexios' defenders and supporters: his half-sister Maria Komnene, the ''caesar'' John, his loyal generals [[Andronikos Doukas Angelos]], [[Andronikos Kontostephanos]] and [[John Komnenos Vatatzes]],<ref name="EB1911"/><ref name=odb/>{{rp|64}} while Empress Dowager Maria was put in prison. In 1183, Alexios was compelled to condemn his own mother to death. In September 1183, Andronikos was formally proclaimed emperor before the crowd on the terrace of the [[Arslan Hane, Istanbul|Church of Christ of the Chalkè]]. Probably by the end of the same month,<ref name=odb/>{{rp|64}} Andronikos ordered Alexios' assassination; the young emperor was secretly strangled with a bow-string and his body thrown in the [[Bósporos]].<ref name="EB1911"/><ref name=odb/>{{rp|64}}<ref name=NCMH>{{cite book |editor1-last= Luscombe |editor1-first= David| editor-link1= David Luscombe|editor2-last=Riley-Smith |editor2-first= Jonathan|editor-link2= Jonathan Riley-Smith | last=Magdalino |first=Paul |author-link=Paul Magdalino |year=2008 |chapter=The Byzantine empire, 1118–1204|title=[[The New Cambridge Medieval History]], volume IV, c. 1024–c. 1198, Part II|publisher=Cambridge University Press|isbn=978-0-521-41411-1}}</ref>{{rp|641}} In the years following Alexios' mysterious disappearance, many young men resembling him tried to claim the throne. In the end, none of those ''[[Pseudo-Alexios II|pseudo-Alexioi]]'' managed to become emperor.<ref name=NCMH/>{{rp|641–2}}
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