Five years after his last major victory, Alexios fell seriously ill returning from a minor campaign and died on August 15th in Constantinople. Brownworth describes him as the greatest emperor since Basil II, whose forty years saved the empire and left it incomparably stronger — but whose system of personal diplomacy was too complex to survive him, so that within eighty years enemies were again at the doorstep with no Alexios to face them.
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Episode 14 (30 mentions)
Five years after his last major victory, Alexios fell seriously ill returning from a minor campaign and died on August 15th in Constantinople. Brownworth describes him as the greatest emperor since Basil II, whose forty years saved the empire and left it incomparably stronger — but whose system of personal diplomacy was too complex to survive him, so that within eighty years enemies were again at the doorstep with no Alexios to face them.
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