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Michael I Rangabe
Emperor of the Romans
Michael I, as depicted in the 12th century Madrid Skylitzes.
Byzantine emperor
Reign
2 October 811 – 11 July 813
Coronation
2 October 811 Hagia Sophia
Predecessor
Staurakios
Successor
Leo V
Co-emperors
Theophylact (811–813) Staurakios (II) (811–?)
Born
c. 770
Died
11 January 844 (aged 73) Prote Island (now Kınalıada, Turkey)
Burial
Church on Prote Island, transferred to the Monastery of Satyros[1]
Spouse
Prokopia
Issue
Theophylaktos Staurakios Niketas Georgo Theophano
Names
Michael Rangabe
Dynasty
Nikephorian
Father
Theophylact Rhangabe
Michael I Rangabé (also spelled Rangabe or Rhangabe; Greek: Μιχαὴλ Ῥαγγαβέ, romanized: Mikhaḗl Rangabé; c. 770 – 11 January 844) was Byzantine emperor from 811 to 813.
Michael was the son of the patrician Theophylact Rhangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet.[2] He married Prokopia, the daughter of the former Emperor Nikephoros I,[3] and received the high court dignity of kouropalatēs after his father-in-law's accession in 802.
from his wound in 812), and he was succeeded by his brother-in-law MichaelIRangabe. In 812 Krum invaded Byzantine Thrace, taking Develt and scaring the...
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appointed Michael's heir, a powerful faction in Constantinople, led by the ambitious Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Keroularios, pressured Michael to abdicate...
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emperor from 813 to 820. A senior general, he forced his predecessor, MichaelIRangabe, to abdicate and assumed the throne. He ended the decade-long war...
to the sword. On Michael III's death, Basil, as an already acclaimed co-emperor, automatically became the ruling basileus. Basil I became an effective...
territory, Nikephoros's successor MichaelIRangabe capitulated; in return for the restoration of the captured territories, Michael sent Byzantine delegates to...
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Walter E. (1998). "Valentinian I (364–375 A.D)". De Imperatoribus Romanis. Grant, Michael (1985). The Roman emperors. Michael Grant Publications. ISBN 0-684-18388-9...
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senatorial revolt broke out, leading to the successive proclamation of Gordian I, Gordian II, Pupienus, Balbinus, and Gordian III as emperors in opposition...
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condition of service to the Emperor. Michael was originally a high-ranking soldier serving under Emperor MichaelIRangabe of the Nikephorian dynasty. He aided...
Fall of the Roman Empire, Chapter 48. Grünbart, Michael, 'Die Macht des Historiographen – Andronikos (I.) Komnenos und sein Bild', in Zbornik Radova Vizantinoloskog...
Crusades, 65 P. Magdalino, The Empire of Manuel I Komnenos, 67 Jeffreys, Elizabeth; Jeffreys, Michael (2015) "A Constantinopolitan Poet Views Frankish...
October 2013 Hendy, Michael F. (1999). Catalogue of the Byzantine Coins in the Dumbarton Oaks Collection. Vol. 4, Alexius I to Michael VIII. Dumbarton Oaks...
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