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Alexander (Byzantine emperor)

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The sources are uniformly hostile towards Alexander, who is depicted as lazy, lecherous, drunk, and malignant, including the rumor that he planned to castrate the young Constantine VII in order to exclude him from the succession. He did not, but Alexander did leave his successor a hostile
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There is some evidence that Alexander was already crowned by August 879, but most sources agree that he was appointed co-emperor following the death of his brother
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Italics indicates a junior co-emperor, underlining indicates an emperor variously regarded as either legitimate or a usurper
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Upon the death of his brother Leo on 11 May 912, Alexander succeeded as senior emperor alongside Leo's young son
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by refusing to send the traditional tribute on his accession. Alexander died soon after, allegedly from a
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Alexander is most commonly not assigned a regnal number. If assigned one, he is rarely regarded as
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because he was born years after the death of Michael. As a child, Alexander was
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During his short reign, Alexander found himself attacked by the forces of
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Transformations of Romanness: Early Medieval Regions and Identities
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Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection
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On his deathbed, Alexander finally concedes power to his nephew
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by his father in early 879, following the death of Basil's son
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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology
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Index

Alexander
Emperor Alexander (disambiguation)
Emperor and Autocrat of the Romans

Hagia Sophia
loros
akakia
Byzantine emperor
Coronation
Leo VI
Constantine VII
Constantinople
Istanbul
Turkey
Regnal name
Dynasty
Macedonian
Basil I
Eudokia Ingerina
Greek
Byzantine emperor
Macedonian dynasty
Born in the purple
Basil I
Eudokia Ingerina
Leo VI the Wise
Michael III
crowned as co-emperor
Constantine

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