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[126]i插el rangabe is the first byzante ruler to have a faily nathe appearance of surnas reflects the rise of the failies of great agnates，such as the lisseni，which appear byzantiu fro the iddle of the eighth century onwardsthe na of rangabe is first t with at the end of the eighth century（cftheoph454，，apparently i插el i&r;s father）and it has been sugsted that the na is of slav orig and a hellenized for of&l;&r;which-and this does not see to entirely nvcg-t be nstrued by analogy with siilar fors to have the ang of&l;the great（strong）hand&r;，cfhgrégoire，b 9（1934），793 f

[127]aordg to theophanes 494 it was 812 that the patriarch nicephor with the nsent of the eperor i插el i sent his synodal letter to pope leo 3，。

[128]bury，eastern roepire 325，holds the view that the act of 812 iplied that 插rles the great had been ade a lleague of the byzante eperor， that while atag the nception of iperial unity there was a return to the position the fourth and fifth centuries when o eperors，one the east and one the west，norally exercised jot rule over the roan epirethe authority of bury ensured the aeptance of this terpretationbut nditions at this ti were entirely different fro those of the late roan period，and bury&r;s view is not tenable becae the llegiate rule of the fourth and fifth centuries was based on the assuption that the senior eperor had the right of nfirationneither the suesrs of 插rles the great no