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MICHAEL II ., called See also: PSELLUS, " the stammerer," emperor 820-829, was a native of Amorium in See also: Phrygia, who began See also: life as a private soldier, but See also: rose by his talents to the See also: rank of general
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He had favoured the enthronement of his old companion in arms See also: Leo the Armenian (813), but, detected in a conspiracy against that emperor, had been sentenced to See also: death in See also: December 82o; his partisans, however, succeeded in assassinating Leo and called Michael from the prison to the See also: throne
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The See also: principal features of his reign were a struggle against his See also: brother general, See also: Thomas, who aimed at the throne (822—824); the
See also: conquest of Crete by the See also: Saracens in 823; and the beginning of their attacks upon See also: Sicily (827)
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In spite of his iconoclastic sympathies, he endeavoured to conciliate the image-worshippers, but incurred the wrath of the monks by entering into a second See also: marriage with See also: Euphrosyne, daughter of See also: Constantine VI., who had previously taken the veil
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