Editing Alexios III Angelos (section)

==Life in exile==
Alexios III attempted to organize resistance to the new regime from [[Adrianople]] and then [[Mosynopolis]], where he was joined by the later usurper [[Alexios V Doukas]] in April 1204, after the definitive [[Sack of Constantinople|fall of Constantinople]] to the crusaders and the establishment of the [[Latin Empire]]. At first, Alexios III received Alexios V well, even allowing him to marry his daughter [[Eudokia Angelina]]. Later, Alexios V was blinded and deserted by his father-in-law, who fled from the crusaders into [[Thessaly]]. Here Alexios III eventually surrendered, with Euphrosyne, to Marquis [[Boniface of Montferrat]], who was establishing himself as ruler of the [[Kingdom of Thessalonica]].

Alexios III attempted to escape Boniface's "protection" in 1205, seeking shelter with [[Michael I Komnenos Doukas]], the ruler of [[Despotate of Epirus|Epirus]]. Captured by Boniface, Alexios and his retinue were sent to [[Montferrat]] before being brought back to [[Thessalonica]] in {{circa|1209}}. At that point the deposed emperor was ransomed by Michael I, who sent him to [[Asia Minor]], where Alexios' son-in-law Theodore – now [[Empire of Nicaea|emperor of Nicaea]] – was holding his own against the Latins. Here Alexios conspired against his son-in-law after the latter refused to recognize Alexios' authority, receiving the support of [[Kaykhusraw I]], the [[Sultanate of Rum|sultan of Rûm]]. In the [[Battle of Antioch on the Meander]] in 1211, the sultan was defeated and killed, and Alexios was captured by Theodore. Alexios was then confined to a monastery at [[İznik|Nicaea]],{{sfn|Treadgold|1997|p=717}} where he died later in 1211.