may have viewed the public trial and execution of the man who murdered the last "legitimate emperor" as a way to cast an aura of legitimacy on themselves. Alexios V was the last Byzantine Emperor to reign in Constantinople before the establishment of the Latin Empire, which controlled the city for the next 57 years, until it was recovered by the Nicaean Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos in 1261. See also List of Byzantine emperors Sack of Constantinople (1204) References Bibliography Akropolites, G. The History, trans. Ruth Macrides (2007) Oxford University Press Falk, A. (2010) Franks and Saracens: Reality and Fantasy in the Crusades, Karnac Books Giarenis, I. (2017) "The Crisis of the Fourth Crusade in Byzantium (1203–1204) and the Emergence of Networks for Anti-Latin Reaction and Political Action", Mediterranean World, 23, pp. 73–80. Head, C. (1980) "Physical Descriptions of the Emperors in Byzantine Historical Writing", Byzantion, Vol. 50, No. 1 (1980), Peeters Publishers, pp. 226–240 Hendrickx, B. and Matzukis, C. (1979) "Alexios V Doukas Mourtzouphlos: His Life, Reign and Death (?–1204)", in Hellenika (Έλληνικά) 31: 111–117 Madden, T.F. (1992) "The Fires of the Fourth Crusade in Constantinople, 1203- 1204: A Damage Assessment", Byzantinische Zeitschrift, lxxxiv–v, pp. 72–93. Madden, T.F. (1995) "Outside and Inside the Fourth Crusade", The International History Review, Vol. 17, No. 4 (Nov., 1995), Taylor and Francis, pp. 726–743 Further reading Jonathan Harris, Byzantium and the Crusades (London and New York, 2nd ed., 2014). Jonathan Phillips (2004). The Fourth Crusade and the Sack of Constantinople (London and New York, 2004) Alexios Doukas Alexios Doukas 12th-century Byzantine people 13th-century Byzantine emperors Angelid dynasty Blind royalty and nobility Byzantine prisoners and detainees Byzantine usurpers Christians of the Fourth Crusade Deaths from falls Doukas family Executed Byzantine people Executed monarchs Leaders who took power by coup Eastern Orthodox monarchs Monarchs taken prisoner in wartime People executed for treason Protovestiarioi