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MICHAEL VII

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

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: MIC-MOL
MICHAEL VII . DUCAS, Or PARAPINACES, was the eldest son of
Constantine
  X. Ducas. After a
joint
  reign with his
brothers
 , Andronicus I. and
Constantine
  XI. (10671071), he was made sole emperor through his uncle John Ducas. The feebleness of Michael, whose
chief
 
interest
  lay in trifling academic pursuits, and the avarice of his ministers, was disastrous to the
empire
 . As the result of anarchy in the army, the Byzantines lost their last possessions in
Italy
  (1071), and were forced to cede a large strip of
Asia
 
Minor
  which they were unable to defend against the Seljuk Turks (1074). These misfortunes, which were but partially retrieved by the suppression of a Bulgarian revolt (1073), caused widespread dissatisfaction. In 1078 two generals, Nicephorus Bryennius and Nicephorus Botaniates, simultaneously revolted. Michael resigned the throne with hardly a struggle and retired into a monastery. His nickname Parapinaces (" starver ") was due to his causing the price of wheat to rise.


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