Michael I Rangabe
Byzantine emperor
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He became Byzantine emperor by default when the heir apparent was too badly wounded to rule — then lost his throne two years later when his general walked off the battlefield and took the army with him.
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Michael I Rangabe was a courtier under Nikephoros I who survived the catastrophic 811 campaign against the Bulgars that killed the emperor and crippled his son Staurakios. Proclaimed emperor by Patriarch Nicephorus on 2 October 811, Michael leaned heavily on iconodule clerics and pursued conciliation: he recognised Charlemagne as emperor (though not of the Romans) and sought papal help in the Moechian controversy. His tentative command in a second war against the Bulgars ended in defeat at Versinikia. Leo the Armenian, stratēgos of the Anatolic Theme, abandoned him mid-battle and was proclaime…
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