Michael I Rangabe, from the Madrid Skylitzes
wikipediaMichael I Rhangabe (Greek: Μιχαῆλ Ῥαγκαβές, Michaēl Rhangabe; c. 770 – 11 January 844) was Byzantine Emperor from 811 to 813.
Michael was the son of the patrician Theophylact Rhangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet.[1] He married Prokopia, the daughter of the future Emperor Nikephoros I,[2] and received the high court dignity of kouropalatēs after his father-in-law's accession in 802.