Staurakios

Staurakios or Stauracius (; ca. 800 – bef. 11 July 813) was the third son of the Byzantine emperor Michael I Rangabe and grandson, on his mother's side, of Nikephoros I . He was junior co-emperor alongside his father during the latter's reign.

Biography Staurakios was born to Michael Rhangabe and Prokopia. He was the couple's third child, according to the list of his siblings given in the hagiography of Patriarch Ignatius I of Constantinople. The same source also states that he was crowned alongside his brother Theophylakt. He was named after his maternal uncle, emperor Staurakios.

Following the death of Nikephoros in the Battle of Pliska on 26 July 811 and the crippling of his only son and heir Staurakios in the same battle, on 2 October the Byzantine Senate and the tagmata guard units acclaimed Nikephoros's son-in-law Michael Rhangabe as emperor and forced Staurakios to abdicate.