Ruler · 1059 – 1090

Michael VII Doukas

Lived 1059 – 1090. Byzantine emperor of Byzantine Empire, 1067 – 1078.

For the full story, the article on Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0); this page holds what the record says of the reign.

Lived: 1059 – 1090; 31 years
In office: 11 years; one reign
Lines: 1; Byzantine Empire
Left it: deposed or killed; Kokkonen & Sundell

Byzantine emperor

Byzantine Empire · the 81st of 113 dated reigns · 337 – 1453

77 before

Isaac I Komnenos1057 – 1059

Constantine X Doukas1059 – 1067

Konstantios Doukas1060 – 1078

Michael VII Doukas1067 – 1078

Andronikos Doukas1068 – 1070

Romanos IV Diogenes1068 – 1071

Nikephoros III Botaneiates1078 – 1081

29 after

killed, executed or dead in battledeposed, abdicated, exiled or removeddied in officeleft alive by a regular roadending not on recorda second row: a reign that began before the last had ended — rival claimants, or a shared thronethis entry

Reigned 1067 – 1078 · 11 years · came to it aged 17

Came to it: the sibling of the ruler before, on record
Left it: deposed or killedcoded by Kokkonen & Sundell: by others

Michael stepped down as emperor in 1078 and later retired to a monastery.

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