id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5585 Alexios V Doukas - Wikipedia .html text/html 3398 440 70 1140 – December 1204), in Latinised spelling Alexius V Ducas, was Byzantine emperor from 5 February to 12 April 1204, just prior to the sack of Constantinople by the participants of the Fourth Crusade. Following the fall, sack, and occupation of the city, Alexios V was blinded by another ex-emperor and later executed by the new Latin regime. By the beginning of 1204, Isaac II and Alexios IV had inspired little confidence among the people of Constantinople with their efforts to protect the city from the Latin crusaders and their Venetian allies, and the citizens were becoming restless. Alexios V was the last Byzantine Emperor to reign in Constantinople before the establishment of the Latin Empire, which controlled the city for the next 57 years, until it was recovered by the Nicaean Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261.[23] Alexios Doukas Mourtzouphlos (Constantinople) ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5585.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5585.txt