Byzantine Revolt: Isaac Angelos Seizes the Throne
Isaac II Angelos killed the tyrant Andronikos I's chief enforcer Stephen Hagiochristophorites and rallied the citizens of Constantinople into open revolt. The uprising toppled the despised Andronikos and placed Isaac on the Byzantine throne, though his ineffective rule would accelerate the empire's decline toward the catastrophe of the Fourth Crusade.
September 11, 1185
841 years ago
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Stephanus Hagiochristophorites
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Andronicus I Comnenus
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Stephen Hagiochristophorites
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Isaac II Angelos
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Byzantine Empire
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