Michael I Rangabe

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 I Rangabe

2 October 811 – 11 July 813

2 October 811
Hagia Sophia

Staurakios

Leo V

Theophylact (811–813)
Staurakios (II) (811–?)

c. 770

11 January 844 (aged 73)
Prote Island
(now Kınalıada, Turkey)

Church on Prote Island, transferred to the Monastery of Satyros^[1]

Prokopia

Theophylaktos
Staurakios
Niketas
Georgo
Theophano

Nikephorian

Theophylact Rhangabe

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.

Georgo, a daughter

[12]

crowned co-emperor on Christmas 811, became a monk after 813.^[13]

Theophylact

Niketas, later Patriarch (c. 798 – 877)^[10]

Ignatios of Constantinople

Staurakios, crowned co-emperor on Christmas 811, pre-deceased his father

[14]

Theophano, a daughter

[15]

By his wife Prokopia, Michael I had at least five children:

Solidus of Michael I and his son Theophylact

Coronation of Michael I from the 12th-century Madrid Skylitzes, probably drawn from an earlier unrelated source.^[16]

Byzantines and Bulgarians clash at Versinikia in 813.

The armies of Michael I (below) and Krum (above) prepare for battle after negotiations failed.

Michael I abdicates the throne to Leo V. From the 16th century Facial Chronicle.

Depiction of Michael I in the 15th-century Mutinensis gr. 122.

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Michael I Rangabe