Genealogies of the lower countries
Keizer Michael Iii van Byzantium
840 - 867 (27 years)
Has more than 100 ancestors and more than 100 descendants in this family tree.
Abt 840 - Yes, date unknown-
Name Michael Iii van Byzantium Title Keizer Birth Thu 19 Jan 840 Constantinopel, Istanbul, Turkiye 
[1] Gender Male Death Fri 23 Sep 867 Constantinopel, Istanbul, Turkiye Person ID I30797 Nederlandse voorouders Last Modified Mon 16 Jan 2012
Father Emperor Theophilos Of Byzantium, b. 816 d. Mon 20 Jan 842, Constantinopel, Istanbul, Turkiye (Age 26 years) Mother Theodora Mamikonian, b. Abt 815, Paphlagonia, Asia Minor, Turkiye d. Aft 867, Constantinopel, Istanbul, Turkiye (Age 53 years) Marriage Wed 5 Jun 830 Constantinopel, Istanbul, Turkiye Family ID F133643 Group Sheet | Family Chart
Family Eudocia Ingerina, b. Abt 840 d. Yes, date unknown Children + 1. Leo Vi van Byzantium, b. 866 d. Wed 11 May 912, Istanbul, Türkiye (Age 46 years)Family ID F12056 Group Sheet | Family Chart
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Birth - Thu 19 Jan 840 - Constantinopel, Istanbul, Turkiye 
Death - Fri 23 Sep 867 - Constantinopel, Istanbul, Turkiye = Link to Google Earth Pin Legend 
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Sources - [S15] Wikipedia (Reliability: 2).
Michael III, (January 19, 840 - September 23/24, 867), Byzantine Emperor from 842 to 867. Michael III was the third and traditionally last member of the Phrygian Dynasty. He was given the disparaging moniker the Drunkard by the hostile historians of the succeeding Macedonian dynasty, but modern historical research has largely rehabilitated him, demonstrating the vital role his reign played in the resurgence of Byzantine power in the 9th century.
Michael was the youngest child of Emperor Theophilos and Theodora. Already crowned co-ruler by his father in 840, Michael III had just turned two years old when he succeeded as sole emperor on January 20, 842.
During his minority, the empire was governed by his mother Theodora, her uncle Sergios, and the minister Theoktistos. The empress had iconodule sympathies and deposed Patriarch John VII of Constantinople and replaced him with the iconodule Methothodios in 843. This put an end to the second spell of Iconoclasm. The internal stabilization of the state was not matched on the frontiers. The Byzantine forces were defeated in Pamphylia, Crete, and on the border with Syria by the Abbasids, buut a Byzantine fleet of 85 ships did score a victory over the Arabs in 853, also there were many operations around the Aegean and off the Syrian coast by at least three more fleets, numbering 300 ships total. The imperial government undertook the resettlement of Paulicians from the eastern frontier into Thrace (thus cutting them off from their coreligionists and populating another border region) and launched an expedition against the Slavs in the Peloponnese.
As the emperor was growing up, the courtiers around him fought for influence. Increasingly fond of his uncle Bardas, Michael invested him as kaisar (Caesar) and allowed him to murder Theoktistos in November 855. With Bardas' support, Michael III overthrew the regency on March 15, 856, and relegated his mother and sisters to a monastery in 857.
A conflict between the Byzantines and Bulgarians started in 855-856. The Empire wanted to regain its control over some areas of Thrace, including Philippopolis (Plovdiv) and the ports around the Gulf of Burgas on the Black Sea. The Byzantine forces, led by the emperor and the caesar Bardas, were successful in the conflict and reconquered a number of cities, Philippopolis, Develtus, Anchialus and Mesembria being among them, and the region of Zagora was recovered. At the time of this campaign the Bulgarians were distracted by a war with the Franks under Louis the German and the Croatians.
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