Michael VI Bringas

Michael VI. Stratiotikos (Greek Μιχαὴλ ΣΤ ' ὁ Στρατιωτικός ), also known as " Michael the old man ", was Byzantine emperor from 1056 to 1057. He was already an old man when the Empress Theodora III. appointed him shortly before her own death as his successor.

Given the rivalry between civil servants and military nobility that characterized the 11th century in the Byzantine history, he stood to one side of the page of the official nobility. According to Michael Psellos, the most important Byzantine secondary source for this time, he is said to have numerous officials promoted at a ceremony in extraordinary extent, while at the same time he knew the entire military with a public reprimand. This blatant in the eyes of the military nobility injustice called a group of military officials to the officer Isaac Komnenos on the plan that mobilized the largest part of the army against him. After a successful battle in Phrygia, the rebels had no trouble, Michael settle, then spent the rest of his life in a monastery. Unlike many other Byzantine emperors, who have lost their office prematurely, but he was not blinded or otherwise mutilated. After he was forced to abdicate on August 30, 1057, he died shortly afterwards in the year 1059th