Theophylaktos Rhangabe
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Theophylact Rhangabe or Theophylaktos Rhangabe (, ), was a
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admiral, and the father of the emperor
Michael I Rhangabe Michael I Rangabe (also spelled Rhangabe; ; c. 770 – 11 January 844) was Byzantine emperor from 811 to 813. A courtier of Emperor Nikephoros I (), he survived the disastrous campaign against the Bulgars and was preferred as imperial successor ...
(ruled 811–813).


Life

He is known only from his participation, along with several other high-ranking officials, in a failed conspiracy in 780 to wrest the throne from Empress-regent
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and to raise in her stead
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, the eldest surviving son of
Constantine V Constantine V (; July 718 – 14 September 775) was Byzantine emperor from 741 to 775. His reign saw a consolidation of Byzantine security from external threats. As an able military leader, Constantine took advantage of Third Fitna, civil war ...
(r. 741–775). At the time, he held the post of ''
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'' (admiral) of the ''Dodekanesos'' (roughly the southern
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). After the plot was discovered, Irene had the conspirators publicly whipped,
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d and banished.


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