id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5727 Nicholas Kanabos - Wikipedia .html text/html 1041 214 60 Nicholas Kanabos was elected Byzantine emperor during the Fourth Crusade on 25 or 27 January 1204 by an assembly of the Byzantine Senate, priests, and the mob of Constantinople in direct opposition to co-emperors Isaac II and Alexios IV.[1] Nicholas was a young noble (probably a relative of Angelid emperors[2]) who was chosen after three days of sorting through several unwilling candidates and refused to assume the lofty position. Alexios V Doukas, who had deposed Emperors Isaac II and Alexios IV, offered him a prominent position in his own administration, but Nicholas adamantly rejected these terms. Constantine III with son Constans II Constantine IV with brothers Heraclius and Tiberius and then Justinian II as co-emperors Justinian II (second reign) with son Tiberius as co-emperor Romanos I Lekapenos with sons Christopher, Stephen and Constantine as junior co-emperors John II Komnenos with Alexios Komnenos as co-emperor 13th-century Byzantine emperors ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5727.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5727.txt