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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL , the name of nine See also:

East-See also:Roman emperors. MICHAEL I. RHANGABES (d. 845), an obscure nobleman who had married Procopia, the daughter of Nicephorus I., and been made See also:master of the See also:palace. He was made See also:emperor in a revolution against his See also:brother-in-See also:law, Stauracius (811). Elected as the See also:tool of the bigoted orthodox party in the See also:Church, Michael diligently persecuted the See also:iconoclasts on the See also:northern and eastern frontiers of the See also:empire, but meanwhile allowed the Bulgarians to ravage a See also:great See also:part of See also:Macedonia 'and See also:Thrace; having at last taken the See also:field in the See also:spring of 813, he was defeated near Bersinikia, and See also:Leo the Armenian was saluted emperor in his See also:stead in the following summer. Michael was relegated as a See also:monk to the See also:island of Prote, where he lived unmolested till his See also:death in 845.

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