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MICHAEL IV

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

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MEC-MIC
MICHAEL IV . (d. 1041), " the Paphlagonian," owed his
elevation
  to Zoe, daughter of
Constantine
  VIII., who was the wife of Romanus III., but becoming enamoured of Michael, her
chamberlain
 , poisoned her
husband
  and married her attendant (1034). Michael, however, being of a weak
character
  and subject to epileptic fits, left the government in the hands of his brother, John the Eunuch, who had been first minister of
Constantine
  and Romanus. John's reforms of the army and
financial
 
system
  revived for a while the strength of the
Empire
 , which held its own successfully against its foreign enemies. On the eastern frontier the important post of Edessa was relieved after a prolonged siege. The western Saracens were almost driven out of
Sicily
  by George Maniakes (103840); but an expedition against the Italian Normans suffered several defeats, and after the recall of Maniakes most of the Sicilian conquests were lost (1041). In the north the Serbs achieved a successful revolt (1040), but a dangerous rising by the Bulgarians and Slays which threatened the cities of Thrace and Macedonia was repressed by a triumphant campaign which the decrepit emperor undertook in person shortly before his death (1041).


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