Theophilos (emperor)
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Theophilos was Byzantine Emperor from 829 until his death in 842. He was the second emperor of the Amorian dynasty and the last emperor to support iconoclasm.
Theophilus, in the Chronicle of John Skylitzes
Theophilos on a coin of his father, Michael II, founder of the Amorian dynasty
Theophilos ordering the urban prefect to execute his father's co-conspirators, who were involved in the murder of Leo V
Theophilos celebrating a triumph through Constantinople
Michael II
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Michael II, called the Amorian and the Stammerer, reigned as Byzantine emperor from 25 December 820 to his death on 2 October 829, the first ruler of the Amorian dynasty.
Theophilos (emperor)
…First Bulgarian Empire. The military defeats to the Arabs inspired a more intensely iconoclastic policy than what Theophilos inherited from his father Michael II, and he persecuted many clerics for refusing to submit to the imperial will. After his death, his wife Theodora rescinded this policy but also defended…
Michael II, from the Madrid Skylitzes
Michael the Amorian having an argument with Leo V
Thomas the Slav forming an alliance with the Abbasids
Thomas the Slav is defeated by the army of Omurtag of Bulgaria.