the Absolute King
the Absolutist
the Traditionalist
the Usurper
the Brave (Rum. Mihai Viteazul)
--" . . . Mihaiu (Michael) the Brave (1593-1601) succeeded for a brief space of time in uniting and freeing all the Roumanian provinces---Moldavia, Wallachia, and Transylvania. The documents of the time speak of him a 'Prince of the whole land of Hungro-Wallachia, of Transylvania, and of Moldavia.' To him goes the glory of uniting all of Roumania under one scepter, as it never was again till 1918. . . ." (Rooucek: 7)
--" . . .He is seen as a national hero because he had unified for the first time in history the three Romanian principalities. . . ."
the Boy King: "Rumania, once a mere princedom attached to the Sultanate of Turkey, won independence and the rank of Kingdom under her first Bratianu Premier, famed Ion (John) the Great in 1881. His son, also Ion and also great, saw the Rumanian House of Hohenzollern safely through the War, which brought the nation huge new territories. He induced flamboyant Queen Marie's quiet husband (whose name, already forgotten, was Ferdinand) to exact the abdication of Crown Prince Carol. When King Ferdinand died and Carol's son Mihai became Rumania's 'Boy King' (TIME, Aug. 1, 1927), Rumanians said "It is now Ion who reigns and rules," but later that same year grizzled, astute old Ion Bratianu died, leaving the Premiership to his brother Vintila." (Rumania: Dynasty Restored)
Gioan Bey
Mihnea II of Wallachia (1564-1601)
Prince of Wallachia, 1577-1583, 1585-1591
the Apostate
the Turkified, the Turk, the Turned-Turk
"...Mihnea II of Wallachia (1577-83) accepted Islam, in order to avoid imprisonment or death...." (A History of the Roumanians, p. 61)
Mikhael I of Byzantine Empire (d. 814)
Byzantine Emperor, 811-813
Mikhael Rangabe
le Curopalate
"Michael was the son of the patrician Theophylaktos Rangabe, the admiral of the Aegean fleet. He married Prokopia, the daughter of the future Emperor Nikephoros I, received the high court dignity of kouropalatēs after his father-in-law's accession in 802." (Wikipedia)
Byzantine Emperor Michael III
the Amorian
the Drunkard
the New Constantine: "The Emperor in exile at Nicaea at the time was Michael Palaiologos. It was his army which had achieved the miracle; and it was he who, in August 1261, gratefully acknowledged that he was the elect of God and moved his seat of government to Constantinople. He is designated in history as Michael VIII. He himself liked to be known as the New Constantine, the second founder of the city that he had rescued. Many of his people, however, were aware that he had reached his throne in Nicaea by devious means and many were shocked when he legitimised his position by imprisoning and blinding the young heir apparent. . . ." (Nicol: 9)
the Wily Old Fox of the North: "The wily old fox of the North, as Napoleon called him, is remembered as the chief instrument of the emperor's downfall in Russia. . . ." (Napoleon: A Biographical Companion: 138)
Lapa [117]
Kisloy [118]
the Saint
known as (with his boyar Fedor)
the Passion-Sufferers of Chernigov
the Miracle Workers of Chernigov
Grand Prince of Vladimir, 1248
the Bold
Mikhail II of Beloozero
Prince of Beloozero, 1432–1486
the Old, the Elder
Vereiskiy
Mikhail Ivanovich Bulgakov (d.1554)
the Iron Glove.
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