AHC: Make the Angeloi one of the best dynasties of Byzantium

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The Angeloi dynasty are arguably the poster child for a terrible dynasty. In their nearly 30 year rule they caused the Byzantine Empire to crash and burn, losing vast amounts of territory people, and economic growth, reversing a century of the previous dynasties work.

Your challenge is to prevent/reverse that and have the dynasty be instead one of the greatest of all time. Granting the empire success in as many fields as possible. No real POD, but you get points if you can do this starting from when Isaac takes the throne.
 
Have the people crown, instead of Isaac, either:

a. His uncle, John Komnenos Doukas, father of Michael and Theodore Komnenos Doukas, OTL despots of Epirus/emperor of Thessalonika who did rather well for themselves for a while after 1204. Niketas Choniates says that he offered his own head to be crowned but that the people of Constantinople didn't want to be ruled by another old man.

b. His cousin, Constantine Angelos, who IOTL was defeating the Bulgarians quite handily. Then in 1193, according to Niketas Choniates, his officers betrayed his imperial ambitions to Isaac, who had him blinded, giving the Bulgarians the upper hand again.

Alternatively, Isaac's first wife, the mother of Alexios IV, doesn't die, so Isaac doesn't have to tax for his wedding to a ten year old girl (the taxs he imposed on the Bulgarians for this one of the causes of Bulgarian revolt). Don't ask me why he chose Bela III's daughter when he had two available younger sisters.
 
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