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MICHAEL II

This article appears in Volume V18, Page 359 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MICHAEL II ., called PSELLUS, " the stammerer," emperor 820-829, was a native of Amorium in
Phrygia
 , who began
life
  as a private soldier, but rose by his talents to the rank of general. He had favoured the enthronement of his old companion in arms Leo the Armenian (813), but, detected in a conspiracy against that emperor, had been sentenced to death in December 82o; his partisans, however, succeeded in assassinating Leo and called
Michael
  from the prison to the throne. The
principal
  features of his reign were a struggle against his brother general,
Thomas
 , who aimed at the throne (822824); the conquest of
Crete
  by the Saracens in 823; and the beginning of their attacks upon
Sicily
  (827). In spite of his iconoclastic sympathies, he endeavoured to conciliate the image-worshippers, but incurred the wrath of the monks by entering into a second
marriage
  with Euphrosyne, daughter of
Constantine
  VI., who had previously taken the veil.


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