By the next morning, word had begun spreading through the city of Andronikos’s latest planned arrests, and now thoroughly fed up with his rule, a mob quickly formed, calling for Isaac to take the throne. Isaac baulked at the idea – he didn’t want to be emperor, but the mob demanded it and a kind of semi-forced coronation took place. As Isaac was crowned, Isaac II Angelus, the last of the Komnenoi fled, hoping to seek a safe harbour in Russia. However, Andronikos was quickly captured and sentenced to a barbaric execution, first beaten by surviving nobility, before being paraded through
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