# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/staurakios
# Generated: 2026-08-31T20:24:48.075Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/staurakios"
name: "Staurakios"
slug: "staurakios"
description: "He ruled the Byzantine Empire for 68 days with a severed spine. Carried from the battlefield on a litter after his father died in an ambush, Staurakios was proclaimed emperor while debates over succession raged around his deathbed."
tagline: "Byzantine emperor (775-812)"
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profileType:
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birthDate: "775"
deathDate: "0812-01-11"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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  profileCompleteness:  60
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  country:  null
  category: null
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born in the early 790s to Nikephoros I, Staurakios became co-emperor on 25 December 803 after his father seized the throne from Empress Irene. In 807 a bride show selected Theophano of Athens as his wife. Four years later he marched with his father into Bulgaria; the campaign reached Pliska and broke a relief force, but Khan Krum trapped the Byzantine army in a valley and destroyed it on 26 July 811, killing Nikephoros. Staurakios was carried back to Constantinople with his spine severed and declared emperor despite the wound. The question of succession consumed his short reign. On 2 October 811 his brother-in-law Michael I Rhangabe took the throne. Staurakios was sent to a monastery, where he died on 11 January 812 — either from gangrene or poisoned by his sister Prokopia.