ABSTRACT
The political balance at court changed with the end of the civil war. By then Michael’s wife, Thekla, was dead. The widower emperor decided to contract a second marriage, and Euphrosyne, a daughter of Constantine VI, was elected as the new empress. We know the date from Michael the Syrian, who says that Thekla died in the fourth year of Michael’s reign, that is to say, in 824. 1 The marriage with Euphrosyne probably took place shortly afterwards. The sequence of events in the Continuator seems to corroborate a dating of c. 824–825. 2
