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Alexios IV was a pederast according to his father, who he freed from prison as they joint ruled
Isaac was blinded on orders of Alexios III bte
Btw
The Crusaders here were horrible. Ruthless pillagers who forgot the main mission to recover the holy land
Eventually, on Feb 8 1204, the two Angelids were killed by Alexios V Doukas Mourtzuphlos who tried to handle the crusaders
He was executed in 1205 by being thrown from the column of theodosius.
The Crusaders handled Constantinople for 50 years.
Meanwhile in exile, the Byzantine was the Nicean Empire
Theodore I Laskaris held power for a while, and he was pretty decent
Holding off Turks and expanding territory
His successor John III Doukas Vatatzes was even more better
A pious emperor who made territorial gains and was canonized as a saint in Christianity later
His son Theodore II Laskaris lasted 4 years; albeit he too was brilliant in his own sense. The previous two emperors were epileptic
Despite his epilepsy, John III and Theodore II managed to keep the empire going on
They handed their throne off to John IV Laskaris, Theodore’s 8 year old son who had a regent for 3 years.
On his 11th birthday, he was blinded and exiled.
The man who ordered this was Michael VIII Palaiologos
He was brutal but an ok emperor
Not great
But he did reconquer constantinople by 1260.
Andronikos II Komnenos had a long reign but he was ineffective.
A lot of lost territory happened during his reign
In 1320, his grandson Andronikos III ended up accidentally killing his own brother
And Andronikos II’s son, his Co Emperor John IX died of grief
Andronikos ended up disowning his grandson and a civil war happened
The latter won and he ruled for a bit.
His son, John V was pathetic
A spineless ruler who completely lost territory around the empire
He didn’t know when to give up
Eventually he died of a nervous breakdown after a series of humiliating defeats.
His successors had very little territory. Manuel II Palaiologos held onto them for 25 years.
John VIII Palaiologos made some gains but lost them in the end
And in 1453, Constantine XI Dragases Palaiologos led the Byzantine into a final charge against Sultan Mehmet II of the ottomans.
He died, and the light of rome was extinguished.
That’s the end of the story.
I recapped the entire history of rome from 193 AD to 1453 AD.
Oh and
Regarding the great schism
Not much to talk about, the latin west divided with the greek east in 1054