<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_III" id="mwLA" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Michael III">Michael III</a>, emperor of the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_Empire" id="mwLQ" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Byzantine Empire">Byzantine Empire</a>, overthrows the regency of his mother, empress <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_(wife_of_Theophilos)" id="mwLg" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Theodora (wife of Theophilos)">Theodora</a> (wife of Theophilos) with support of the Byzantine <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nobility" id="mwLw" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Nobility">nobility</a>.<sup about="#mwt27" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"}}' id="cite_ref-4" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./March_15#cite_note-4" id="mwMA" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 4;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwMQ">[4]</span></a></sup>
<span class="mw-reference-text" id="mw-reference-text-cite_note-4"><cite about="#mwt24" class="citation book cs1" id="CITEREFTobias2007">Tobias, Norman (2007). <i id="mwB5Y">Basil I, Founder of the Macedonian Dynasty: A Study of the Political and Military History of the Byzantine Empire in the Ninth Century</i>. Lewiston, N.Y.: The Edwin Mellen Press. p.<span id="mwB5c" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span>287. <a class="mw-redirect" href="./ISBN_(identifier)" id="mwB5g" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a><span id="mwB5k" typeof="mw:Entity"> </span><a href="./Special:BookSources/9780773454057" id="mwB5o" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Special:BookSources/9780773454057"><bdi id="mwB5s">9780773454057</bdi></a>.</cite><span about="#mwt24" class="Z3988" id="mwB5w" title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&amp;rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&amp;rft.genre=book&amp;rft.btitle=Basil+I%2C+Founder+of+the+Macedonian+Dynasty%3A+A+Study+of+the+Political+and+Military+History+of+the+Byzantine+Empire+in+the+Ninth+Century&amp;rft.place=Lewiston%2C+N.Y.&amp;rft.pages=287&amp;rft.pub=The+Edwin+Mellen+Press&amp;rft.date=2007&amp;rft.isbn=9780773454057&amp;rft.aulast=Tobias&amp;rft.aufirst=Norman&amp;rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AMarch+15"></span></span>