Михаил I Рангабе, Куропалат (811-813)
1. After the emperor Nikephorus was slain in Bulgaria, his son Staurakios, having survived mortally wounded in the capital, relinquished both his life and his throne only two months later. The emperor`s brother-in-law (who went by the name of Rangabe) found himself holding the Roman sceptre at the…