Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos

Alexios V Doukas, called Mourtzouphlos for his bushy brows, seized the throne from Alexios IV in a February 1204 palace coup, with the Fourth Crusade camped outside Constantinople. He organized the city's defence and repelled an assault on 9 April.

Three days later the crusaders breached the walls and sacked it; Alexios fled by night to Thrace with Eudokia Angelina. Her father Alexios III had him blinded.

Captured by the Latins in November 1204, he was tried for Alexios IV's death and thrown from the Column of Theodosius. He was the last Byzantine emperor to rule the city before its recapture in 1261.