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MICHAEL II

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL II ., called See also:PSELLUS, " the stammerer," See also:emperor 820-829, was a native of Amorium in See also:Phrygia, who began See also:life as a private soldier, but See also:rose by his talents to the See also:rank of See also:general. He had favoured the enthronement of his old See also:companion in arms See also:Leo the Armenian (813), but, detected in a See also:conspiracy against that emperor, had been sentenced to See also:death in See also:December 82o; his partisans, however, succeeded in assassinating Leo and called Michael from the See also:prison to the See also:throne. The See also:principal features of his reign were a struggle against his See also:brother general, See also:Thomas, who aimed at the throne (822—824); the See also:conquest of See also:Crete by the See also:Saracens in 823; and the beginning of their attacks upon See also:Sicily (827). In spite of his iconoclastic sympathies, he endeavoured to conciliate the See also:image-worshippers, but incurred the wrath of the monks by entering into a second See also:marriage with See also:Euphrosyne, daughter of See also:Constantine VI., who had previously taken the See also:veil.

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