Theophylactos Rangabe, byzantine co-emperor

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Theophylact was born to Michael Rhangabe and Prokopia c. 793. He was the couple's oldest child, but the list of his siblings given in the hagiography of Patriarch Ignatius I of Constantinople, who was Theophylact's youngest brother, is unclear on whether he was the eldest child or was born after his oldest sister Gorgo.[1] The same source also states that he was crowned alongside his brother Staurakios.[2] He was named after his paternal grandfather, the droungarios of the Dodekanesos Theophylact Rhangabe, who had participated in a failed conspiracy to wrest the throne from Empress-regent Irene of Athens in 780.[3] Nevertheless his maternal grandfather, the emperor Nikephoros I (r. 802–811), rose to become General Logothete (finance minister) under Empress Irene before eventually deposing her in October 802.[4]

Following the death of Nikephoros in the Battle of Pliska on 26 July 811 and the crippling of his only son and heir Staurakios in the same battle, on 2 October the Byzantine Senate and the tagmata guard units acclaimed Nikephoros's son-in-law Michael Rhangabe as emperor and forced Staurakios to abdicate.[1][5] Michael immediately set about to consolidate his rule, distributing lavish gifts, crowning his wife as augusta on 12 October, and finally, crowning Theophylact – then aged eighteen – as co-emperor in the Hagia Sophia on Christmas Day, 25 December 811.[1][6] At about the same time, Michael sent an embassy under Bishop Michael of Synnada to the Frankish court, which among other issues raised the prospect of an imperial marriage between Theophylact and one of Charlemagne's daughters. Despite a warm reception at Aachen and the ratification of a peace treaty between the two realms, Charlemagne, perhaps wary after the repeated failures of successive efforts to that effect over the previous decades, hesitated to agree to such a match.[1][7]

Nothing further is known of Theophylact until 11 July 813, when Michael, faced with a military revolt under Leo the Armenian, abdicated the throne. Michael and his family sought refuge in the Church of the Virgin of the Pharos, where they were tonsured as monks and nuns. Michael and his sons were castrated to make them incapable of claiming the throne in the future, and exiled to Plate, one of the Princes' Islands in the Sea of Marmara (though the later historians John Skylitzes and Zonaras mention the island of Prote instead). Leo accorded them an annual stipend.[1][8] According to Theophanes Continuatus, Theophylact, who adopted the monastic name Eustratius (Εὐστράτιος), died five years after his father, on 15 January 849, and was buried alongside him in a church on Plate Island.[1] Theophanes Continuatus also reports that his body (or perhaps that of his father) was later transferred by his brother, Patriarch Ignatios, to the monastery known as "tou Satyrou".[1]

The Byzantine Emperors

It's unanimously agreed by scholars that all the emperors from the Nikephorus Dynasty were from the Ghassanid Royal Family. As stated above, for sure, the Gharios and Ghassan Dynasty is related to the emperors: Nikephorus I (or Nicephorus) Logothetes (reigned from 802 to 811 A.D.), Staurakios (son of Nikephorus, reigned in 811 A.D.), the empress Prokopia (daughter of Nikephorus I) and Michael I Rangabe (Prokopia's husband, reigned from 811 to 813 A.D.).According with many scholars, including Dr. David Huges, the Emperor Michael I and the Empress Prokopia (daughter of Nikephorus I) were the ancestors to later Byzantine Emperors. They had a son, the co-emperor Theophylaktos (co-reigned with Michael I from 812 to 813 AD), and he was father to a daughter named Melissena (later became Martinakia) who married Inger Martinakios. They had a daughter named Eudokia Ingerina who was empress consort of emperor Basil I and mother of the emperor Leo VI the Wise, also the emperor Alexander III and the Patriarch Stephen I of Constantinople. By that link, the Gharios and Ghassan Dynasty is also blood related to the Macedonian Dynasty of the Byzantine Empire and therefore, with the following Byzantine Emperors:

" Basil I the Macedonian (811-886, ruled 867-886) - married the Varangian Eudokia Ingerina

" Leo VI the Wise (866-912, ruled 886-912) - son of Eudokia Ingerina, legal son and heir of Basil I

" AlexanderIII (870-913, ruled 912-913) - son of Basil I, regent for nephew

" Constantine VII the Purple-born (905-959, ruled 913 - 959) - son of Leo VI

" Romanos I Lekapenos (870-948, ruled 919-944) - father-in-law of Constantine VII; co-emperor, attempted to  found his own dynasty.  " Romanos II the Purple-born (938-963, ruled 959-963) - son of Constantine VII

" Nikephoros II Phocas (912-969, ruled 963-969) - successful general, married Romanos II's widow, regent for Basil;  " John I Tzimiskes (925-976, ruled 969-976) - successful general, brother-in-law of Romanos II,  " Basil II (958-1025, ruled 976-1025) - son of Romanos II

" Constantine VIII (960-1028, ruled 1025-1028) - son of Romanos II; silent co-emperor with Basil II, sole emperor after  his brother's death

" Zoe (c. 978-1050, ruled 1028-1050) - daughter of Constantine VIII

" Romanos III Argyros (968-1034, ruled 1028-1034) - eparch of Constantinople; Zoe's first husband, arranged by  Constantine VIII;  " Michael IV the Paphlagonian (1010-1041, ruled 1034-1041) - Zoe's second husband

" Michael V the Caulker (1015-1042, ruled 1041-1042) - Michael IV's nephew, Zoe's adopted son

" Theodora (980-1056, ruled 1042) - daughter of Constantine VIII, co-empress with Zoe

" Constantine IX Monomachos (1000-1055, ruled 1042-1055) - Zoe's third husband

" Theodora (ruled 1055-1056) - restored

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