title: Alexius
text: # Alexius
  
  Alexius is the Latinized form of the given name Alexios (Greek: Αλέξιος, polytonic Ἀλέξιος, "defender", cf. Alexander), especially common in the Byzantine Empire. The female form is Alexia (Greek: Αλεξία) and its variants such as Alessia (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 tablets KN Df 1229 and MY Fu 718).
  
  ## Rulers
  
  * Alexios I Komnenos (1048–1118), Byzantine emperor
  * Alexios II Komnenos (1167–1183), Byzantine emperor
  * Alexios III, Byzantine emperor
  * Alexios IV, Byzantine emperor
  * Alexios V Doukas, Byzantine emperor
  * Alexios I of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
  * Alexios II of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
  * Alexios III of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
  * Alexios IV of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
  * Alexios V of Trebizond, Emperor of Trebizond
  * Alexius Mikhailovich (1629–1676), Tsar of Russia
  * Alexius Petrovich (1690–1718), Russian tsarevich
  
  ## Religious figures
  
  * Alexius, Metropolitan of Moscow (1354–1378)
  * Patriarch Alexius I of Constantinople (1025–1043)
  * Alexius (c. 1425–1488), Russian archpriest who converted to Judaism
  * Patriarch Alexius I of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1945–1970)
  * Patriarch Alexius II of Moscow and All Russia (r. 1990–2008)
  * Alexius of Nicaea, metropolitan bishop
  * Saint Alexius of Rome, fifth-century eastern saint
  * Alexius, a monk and saint of Kiev - see Abraham and Onesimus of Kiev
  
  ## Other
  
  * Alexios Apokaukos, Byzantine statesman
  * Alexios Aspietes, Byzantine governor
  * Alexios Branas, Byzantine general
  * Alexios Halebian, American tennis player
  * Alexius Meinong, Austrian philosopher
  * Alexios Mosele (Caesar), Byzantine heir-apparent
  * Alexios Palaiologos (despot), Byzantine heir-apparent
  * Alexios Philanthropenos, Byzantine general
  * Alexios Raoul (protovestiarios), Byzantine general
  * Alexios Strategopoulos, Byzantine general
  * Alexios Xiphias, Byzantine Catepan of Italy
  * Alexios (Assassin's Creed), a fictional character in Assassin's Creed: Odyssey
  