Theophylact (son of Michael I)
| Theophylact | |
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Nikephorian dynasty | |
| Father | Michael I Rangabe |
| Mother | Prokopia |
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Theophylact or Theophylaktos (
monastic name
Eustratius.
Biography
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Theophylact was born to
General Logothete (finance minister) under Empress Irene before eventually deposing her in October 802.[4]
Following the death of Nikephoros in the
augusta on 12 October, and finally, crowning Theophylact – then aged eighteen – as co-emperor in the Hagia Sophia on Christmas Day, 25 December 811.[1][6] At about the same time, Michael sent an embassy under Bishop Michael of Synnada to the Frankish court, which among other issues raised the prospect of an imperial marriage between Theophylact and one of Charlemagne's daughters. Despite a warm reception at Aachen and the ratification of a peace treaty between the two realms, Charlemagne, perhaps wary after the repeated failures of successive efforts to that effect over the previous decades, hesitated to agree to such a match.[1][7]
Nothing further is known of Theophylact until 11 July 813, when Michael, faced with a military revolt under
monastic name Eustratius (Εὐστράτιος), died five years after his father, on 15 January 849, and was buried alongside him in a church on Plate Island.[1] Theophanes Continuatus also reports that his body (or perhaps that of his father) was later transferred by his brother, Patriarch Ignatios, to the monastery known as "tou Satyrou".[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e f g PmbZ, pp. 684–685.
- ^ Martindale 2001.
- ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 60–61, 405 (note #163).
- ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 128–129.
- ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 173–177.
- ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 177–179.
- ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 179, 182.
- ^ Treadgold 1988, pp. 188–189.
Sources
- ISBN 978-0-8047-1462-4.
- ISBN 978-3-11-016674-3.
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