id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-5704 Michael IX Palaiologos - Wikipedia .html text/html 6920 686 73 A man of impeccable morals and a good helper to his father, he was also known as a brave and energetic soldier, willing to make personal sacrifices to pay or encourage his troops; the Catalan military chronicler Ramon Muntaner said about him: "Emperor Michael was one of the bravest knights in the world".[1] Despite his militar prestige, he suffered several defeats, which could be difficult to established the real reason about this: either his inability as a commander, the deplorable state of the Byzantine army or just simply bad luck. ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5704.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5704.txt