Alexios II Komnenos

Alexios II Komnenos (1169–1183), the only son of Emperor Manuel I and Maria of Antioch, was born in the purple at Constantinople. He married Agnes, daughter of King Louis VII of France, in March 1180 and succeeded his father that September aged eleven.

His mother and Alexios Komnenos ruled as regents, draining the treasury while Hungary and the Seljuks raided the borders. In 1182 Andronikos Komnenos seized the capital, and in September 1183 he had Alexios strangled with a bowstring and thrown into the Bosporos.