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MICHAEL VI

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 359 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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MICHAEL VI ., " the warlike," was already an old See also:man when chosen by the empress See also:Theodora as her successor shortly before her See also:death in ro56. He was unable to check the disaffection of the feudal See also:aristocracy, who combined with an officer named See also:Isaac See also:Comnenus to depose him. After a successful See also:battle in See also:Phrygia, the rebels had no difficulty in dethroning Michael (1057), who spent the See also:rest of his See also:life in a monastery.

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