Michael the Amorian II

• Preferred Name: Michael the Amorian II
  
• Gender: M
  
• Occupation: "drongarios"
  
• Death: 2 OCT 829 in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey at LATI: N1.011 LONG: E8.9578
  
• FSID: LV9P-7C1
  
• Occupation: Drongarios u. Tourmarchos
  
• Birth:: in Phrygia, Roman Empire at LATI: N8.5311 LONG: E0.5458 with note: Merge
  
• Birth: 770 in Hisarköy, Afyonkarahisar, Turkey (Amorium) at LATI: N9.0207 LONG: E1.2923
  
• Death:: 2 OCT 829 in Paphlagonian, Turkey at LATI: N9 LONG: E5 with note: Merge
  
• Notes:

  === Life Sketch ===
  From Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_II
  
  Michael was born in 770 in Amorium, in Phrygia, into a family of professional peasant-soldiers who received land from the government for their military service. His family belonged to the Judeo-Christian sect of the Athinganoi, whose members were Cappadocians who adopted Jewish rituals. The Athinganoi were numerous in Anatolia and together with the Greeks and Armenians formed the backbone of the Byzantine army of that era.
  
  Thekla and Michael had only one known son, the Emperor Theophilos (813 – 20 January 842). The existence of a daughter called Helena is possible but there is a contradiction between different sources. Helena is known as the wife of Theophobos, a patrician executed in 842 for conspiring to gain the throne for himself. George Hamartolus and Theophanes report him marrying the sister of the Empress Theodora. Joseph Genesius records Theophobos marrying the sister of the Emperor Theophilos. Whether Helena was sister or sister-in-law to Theophilos is thus unclear.
  
  Because of his Judeo-Christian origin and iconoclasm, Michael II was not popular among Orthodox clergy, who depicted him as an ignorant and poorly educated peasant, but Michael II was a competent statesman and administrator. He brought stability to most of the Byzantine Empire for the first time in many generations and began restoration of the Byzantine military. The system of government and military built by Michael II enabled the Empire under his grandson Michael III to gain the ascendency in their struggles with the Abbasids and to withstand all the vicissitudes of Byzantine palace life. Michael II's direct descendants, the Amorian dynasty followed by the so-called Macedonian dynasty, ruled the Empire for more than two centuries, inaugurating the Byzantine Renaissance of the 9th and 10th centuries.
  
  After the death of Thekla, in c. 823, Michael II married Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI and Maria of Amnia. This marriage was probably intended to strengthen Michael's position as Emperor, but it incurred the opposition of the clergy, as Euphrosyne had previously become a nun. Michael II died on October 2, 829.
  
  === Fusion impossible? ===
  see GW44-JFC
  
  === !"Our Plafs Roots Are True" A Genealogy ===
  !"Our Plafs Roots Are True" A Genealogy of Kochert and Nieb Families, by Ethel Clift Philips, Published 1983. The information in the book is derived from church records of Rumbach and Family records. !Source is from "Neuhart Nobility", by Dennis Allen Kastens -1997 page 228. 1. He was "Tourmarches"in Paphlagonian and EPJ III's 36 GGrandfather.

1. Theophilos Makedonia Emperor of the Byzantine Empire, b. BET 803 AND 813 in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey     d. 20 JAN 842 in Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey