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Staurakios or
Stauracius (
Greek: Σταυράκιος), (died
January 11,
812) was
Byzantine emperor from
July 26 to
October 2,
811.
The son of Emperor
Nikephoros I, Staurakios had been crowned as co-emperor by his father in 803. The chronicler
Theophanes the Confessor claims that Staurakios was guilty of
rape, a claim perhaps colored by his hostility to Nikephoros I. In 807 Staurakios married the
Athenian Theophano, a relative of the deposed Empress
Irene.
Staurakios participated in his father's expedition against
Krum of Bulgaria in 811, and barely escaped with his life from the disastrous
Battle of Pliska, in which his father was killed. However, Staurakios was paralyzed by a sword wound near his neck, and was saved by the imperial guard which retreated from the battlefield. Because of his uncertain condition he was hastily crowned at
Adrianople, the first time an emperor of the Eastern Empire had been crowned outside
Constantinople.
Due to his debilitating wound, Staurakios was unable to exercise actual authority. As his condition worsened, the court was split between the factions of his wife Theophano and his sister Prokopia, who hoped that her husband
Michael Rangabe would be chosen as the emperor's heir. As it became clear that Staurakios intended to designate Theophano as his successor (or else to abolish the empire and declare a republic), the supporters of Michael forced the emperor to abdicate on
October 2,
811. Staurakios retired to a
monastery where he died from the effects of his wound on
January 11,
812. Michael Rangabe became emperor, as
Michael I.
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