MICHAEL

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MICHAEL , the name of nine

East

EAST
EAST, ALFRED (1849- )

-Roman emperors. MICHAEL I. RHANGABES (d. 845), an obscure nobleman who had married Procopia, the daughter of Nicephorus I., and been made master of the palace. He was made emperor in a revolution against his brother-in-law, Stauracius (811).
Elected as the

tool

TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the English word " taw," to work or dress leather)

of the bigoted orthodox party in the

Church

, Michael diligently persecuted the iconoclasts on the northern and eastern frontiers of the empire, but meanwhile allowed the Bulgarians to ravage a

great

GREAT

part of Macedonia 'and Thrace; having at last taken the field in the

spring

SPRING (from " to spring," " to leap or jump up," " burst out," O. Eng., springau, a common Teut. word, cf. Ger.
springer
- SPRINGER (Fr. rein)
- SPRINGER, ANTON HEINRICH (1825–1891)
, possibly allied to Gr. QnrFpxecOac, to move rapidly)

of 813, he was defeated near Bersinikia, and Leo the Armenian was saluted emperor in his

stead

in the following summer. Michael was relegated as a monk to the

island

ISLAND (O.E. ieg =isle, +land')

of Prote, where he lived unmolested till his death in 845.

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