Alexius is the
Latinized form of the given name Alexios (, polytonic , "defender", cf.
Alexander
Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history.
Variants listed here ar ...
), especially common in the
Byzantine Empire
The Byzantine Empire, also known as the Eastern Roman Empire, was the continuation of the Roman Empire centred on Constantinople during late antiquity and the Middle Ages. Having survived History of the Roman Empire, the events that caused the ...
. The female form is
Alexia () and its variants such as
Alessia
Alessia is an Italian given name, the Feminine gender, feminine form of the male given name Alessio (disambiguation), Alessio, the Italian form of Alexius. In Greek it is Alexia (given name), Alexia. It is a popular name for females in Italy and ...
(the masculine form of which is
Alessio) in Italian.
The name belongs to the most ancient attested Greek names (a-re-ke-se-u in the
Linear B
Linear B is a syllabary, syllabic script that was used for writing in Mycenaean Greek, the earliest Attested language, attested form of the Greek language. The script predates the Greek alphabet by several centuries, the earliest known examp ...
tablets KN Df 1229 and MY Fu 718).
Rulers
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Alexios I Komnenos
Alexios I Komnenos (, – 15 August 1118), Latinization of names, Latinized as Alexius I Comnenus, was Byzantine Emperor, Byzantine emperor from 1081 to 1118. After usurper, usurping the throne, he was faced with a collapsing empire and ...
(1048–1118), Byzantine emperor
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Alexios II Komnenos (1167–1183), Byzantine emperor
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Alexios III, Byzantine emperor
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Alexios IV, Byzantine emperor
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Alexios V Doukas, Byzantine emperor
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Alexios I of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
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Alexios II of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
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Alexios III of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
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Alexios IV of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
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Alexios V of Trebizond
Alexios V Megas Komnenos (; 1454 – 1 November 1463) was very briefly List of Trapezuntine emperors, Trapezuntine emperor in April 1460, succeeding his uncle John IV of Trebizond, John IV, until his deposition by his other uncle, David of Trebizo ...
, Emperor of Trebizond
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Alexius Mikhailovich (1629–1676), Tsar of Russia
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Alexius Petrovich (1690–1718), Russian tsarevich
Religious figures
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Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow (1354–1378)
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Patriarch Alexius I of Constantinople (1025–1043)
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Alexius (c. 1425–1488), Russian archpriest who converted to Judaism
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Patriarch Alexius I of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1945–1970)
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Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1990–2008)
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Alexius of Nicaea, metropolitan bishop
* Saint
Alexius of Rome, fifth-century eastern saint
Other
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Alexios Apokaukos, Byzantine statesman
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Alexios Aspietes, Byzantine governor
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Alexios Branas, Byzantine general
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Alexios Halebian, American tennis player
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Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher
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Alexios Mosele (Caesar), Byzantine heir-apparent
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Alexios Palaiologos (despot), Byzantine heir-apparent
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Alexios Philanthropenos, Byzantine general
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Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios), Byzantine general
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Alexios Strategopoulos
Alexios Komnenos Strategopoulos () was a Byzantine aristocrat and general who rose to the rank of ''megas domestikos'' and ''Caesar (title), Caesar''. Distantly related to the Komnenian dynasty, he appears in the sources already at an advanced a ...
, Byzantine general
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Alexios Xiphias, Byzantine Catepan of Italy
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Alexios (Assassin's Creed), a fictional character in ''Assassin's Creed: Odyssey''
Alexius in other languages
* English – Alexis, Aleck
* German – Alexius, Alexis
* Greek – Αλέξιος
'Alexios'' Αλέξης
'Alexis''* French – Alexis
* Italian – Alessio
* Spanish – Alejo, Alexis
* Portuguese – Aleixo
* Latvian – Alexius, Aleksis, Aleksejs
* Polish – Aleksy
* Czech – Aleš, Alexej
* Slovak – Aleš
* Estonian – Aleksei
* Bulgarian – Алексей
leksej* Serbian – Aleksa
* Finnish – Aleksi, Aleksis
* Macedonian – Aleksio
* Georgian – ალექსი,
'Aleksi'' * Belarusian – Аляксей
leksiej* Russian – Алексей
'Alexei'', ''Alexey'', ''Aleksei'', ''Aleksey', Алексий
'Alexiy', Алёша
'Alyosha', Лёша
'Lyosha''* Ukrainan – Олексій
'Oleksii'', ''Oleksiy'' Олекса
'Oleksa''* Hungarian – Elek
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