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Christmas. Michael sent messages to his co-conspirators threatening to reveal their identity, whereupon his partisans freed him and murdered Leo V during the Christmas mass in
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Because of his Judeo-Christian origin and iconoclasm, Michael II was not popular among
Orthodox clergy, who depicted him as an ignorant and poorly educated peasant, but Michael II was a competent statesman and administrator. Though the civil war his accession precipitated gravely weakened the
523:, into a Cappadocian-Jewish family of professional peasant-soldiers who received land from the government for their military service. A Syrian source declares that Michael II was of Jewish birth. His family belonged to the Judeo-Christian sect of the
824:. This marriage was probably intended to strengthen Michael's position as Emperor, but it incurred the opposition of the clergy, as Euphrosyne had previously become a nun. Michael II died on 2 October 829 from kidney failure.
683:, effectively besieging the capital in December 821. Although Thomas did not win over all the Anatolian themes, he secured the support of the naval theme and their ships, allowing him to tighten his grip on
481:, which almost cost him his throne and was not completely quelled until spring 824. The later years of his reign were marked by two major military disasters that had long-term effects: the beginning of the
477:. However, after they fell out Leo sentenced Michael to death. Michael then masterminded a conspiracy which resulted in Leo's assassination at Christmas in 820. Immediately he faced the long revolt of
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imperial government, by the end of his reign he had begun a restoration of the
Byzantine military. The system of government and military built by Michael II enabled the Empire under his grandson
789:(813 – 20 January 842). The existence of a daughter called Helena is possible but there is a contradiction between different sources. Helena is known as the wife of
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to gain the ascendancy in their struggles with the
Abbasids and to withstand all the vicissitudes of Byzantine palace life. Michael II's direct descendants, the
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Theophobos marrying the sister of the Emperor Theophilos. Whether Helena was sister or sister-in-law to Theophilos is thus unclear.
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in 813, after
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Talbot, Alice-Mary Maffry (1996). "Life of St. Theodora of
Thessalonike".
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Holy Women of Byzantium: Ten Saints' Lives in English Translation
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976:Giorgi, Andrea U. De; Eger, A. Asa (30 May 2021).
552:Michael first rose to prominence as a close aide (
582:. Michael was instrumental in Leo's overthrow of
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632:. In his internal policy, Michael II supported
743:, leading to the surrender of Thomas the Slav.
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921:. University Press of America. p. 72.
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1040:The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium
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529:, whose members had adopted the
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948:. Dumbarton Oaks. p. 178.
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982:. Routledge. p. 243.
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1105:Encyclopædia Britannica
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2483:John VII Palaiologos
2431:Theodore II Laskaris
2291:Constantine X Doukas
2231:Nikephoros II Phokas
917:Kohen, Elli (2007).
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700:Patriarch of Antioch
650:Theodore of Stoudios
2631:People from Amorium
2414:Theodore I Laskaris
2399:Alexios III Angelos
2377:Alexios II Komnenos
2301:Romanos IV Diogenes
2256:Romanos III Argyros
2202:Romanos I Lekapenos
1010:John Julius Norwich
726:Omurtag of Bulgaria
718:Omurtag of Bulgaria
337:Nikephorian dynasty
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2348:Alexios I Komnenos
2336:Constantine Doukas
2319:Michael VII Doukas
2281:Michael VI Bringas
1847:Romulus Augustulus
1470:Trebonianus Gallus
1463:Herennius Etruscus
1245:Byzantine emperors
1175:Political offices
1100:Michael (emperors)
1031:Kazhdan, Alexander
979:Antioch: A History
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