# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/michael-ii
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:25:40.045Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/michael-ii"
name: "Michael II"
slug: "michael-ii"
description: "A Byzantine soldier who plotted his way from a death sentence to the throne by orchestrating his emperor's assassination on Christmas morning, then spent most of his reign fighting a rebel who nearly took it all back."
tagline: "Byzantine emperor"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Solidus_of_Michael_II_the_Amorian.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "Turkey"
  isoCode: "TR"
birthDate: "770"
deathDate: "0829-10-02"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
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  momentum:             3.463940933754042
  historical:           21.823128
  currentAttention:     13.42118106393363
  sourceConfidence:     60
  profileCompleteness:  50
  trendDirection:       "STABLE"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
tags:
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  - name: "Politician"
    slug: "politician"
  - name: "Politics"
    slug: "politics"
  - name: "Medieval Era"
    slug: "medieval-era"
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    title: "Wikidata"
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    type:  "DATABASE"
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    title: "ميخائيل الثاني"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Miquel II el Tartamut"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_II._(Byzanz)"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://diq.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikhael_II"
    title: "Mikhael II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Μιχαήλ Β´"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mikaelo la 2-a (Bizancio)"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_II"
    title: "Miguel II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_II"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "میخائیل دوم"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mikael_II"
    title: "Mikael II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michel_II_l'Amorien"
    title: "Michel II l'Amorien"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_II"
    title: "Miguel II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hak.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_2-s%E1%B9%B3"
    title: "Michael 2-sṳ"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Mihael II. Amorijski"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
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    title: "Michael II van Bisantium"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://an.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel_II"
    title: "Miguel II"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in Amorium around 770, Michael rose through the military ranks alongside Leo V the Armenian, helping him overthrow Emperor Michael I Rhangabe in 813. The alliance soured: Leo sentenced Michael to death, but Michael turned conspirator and had Leo killed at Christmas 820, seizing the throne himself. Almost immediately Thomas the Slav launched a revolt so dangerous it nearly ended Michael's rule, dragging on until spring 824. The breathing room didn't last—his reign's final years saw two catastrophic losses that would haunt Byzantium for generations: Muslims began their conquest of Sicily, and Andalusian pirates took Crete. At home, he backed the resumed policy of iconoclasm that Leo had revived. He died on 2 October 829, first of the Amorian dynasty.