Family:
Marriage:
Children:
- Theophilus Eastern Emperor Birth: Abt 812
Death: 20 Jan 842
Marriage:
Bibliography
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Brook, Lindsay L, The Byzantine Ancestry of HRH Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, The Genealogist (APSG), vol 2 no 1 (1981), p3-51. NYPL APA 82-1000. Available at https://www.americanancestors.org/databases/genealogist-the/image/. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p[0-9#]*].
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Previte-Orton, C. W., The Shorter Cambridge Medieval History, Cambridge: University Press, 1952. Reprinted with corrections 1960. Available at (part 1) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149173 and (part 2) http://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.149602. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: CMH p[0-9]*].
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Settipani, Christian, Nos Ancetres de L'Antiquite, Etudes des possibilites de liens genealogiques entre les familles de l'Antiquite. Paris: Editions Christian, 1991. NYPL #ARB-93-7430. Information from this source tagged as [Ref: Settipani LGA p[0-9]*].
- date:
- [Ref: Settipani LGA p35],
- father:
- [Ref: Settipani LGA p35]
Sources for death Information
- date:
- [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p6, Settipani LGA p35]
- 829 [Ref: CMH p249]
Sources with Information about marriage to Thekla
- date:
- first marriage of Michael [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p6, CMH p249],
- child:
- [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p6, CMH p249, Settipani LGA p33, Settipani LGA
p35]
Sources with Information about marriage to Euphrosyne
- date:
- second marriage of Michael [Ref: CMH p249]
- second marriage of Michael the Amorian [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p6]
Research Notes:
820-829: Eastern Emperor as Michael II the Amorian [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc
p6]
820-829: emperor [Ref: Settipani LGA p35]
founder of the Amorian dynasty of Byzantine emperors (820-67). As
Ostrogorsky writes, "a rough soldier whose lack of educatio was a source
of derision to the cultured Byzantines" According to one tradition,
Michael's grandfather was a Jew who had been converted to Christianity. [Ref:
Brook ByzantineAnc p6]
family originated in Phrygis (hence the name Phrygian often given to the
dynasty) [Ref: Brook ByzantineAnc p6]
820: established an Empire, first emperor of Amorienne dynasty [Ref: Settipani
LGA p17]
one relates that grandfather of Michael II was a Jew of humble condition,
but it is a confusion [Ref: Settipani LGA p17]
Pedigree of Michael The Amorian Eastern Emperor
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