High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Raictor was an Eastern Orthodox monk who assumed the identity of Byzantine Emperor Michael VII and participated in the Norman campaigns of Robert Guiscard to overthrow the Byzantine Empire.By 1081, the Byzantine Empire was in a state of chaos. Alexios I Komnenos had just overthrown Nikephoros III Botaneiates, and was confronted with the challenge of dealing with the imminent invasion of the Balkans by Robert Guiscard, the Norman Duke of Apulia. Guiscard had used the overthrow of Emperor Michael VII by Nikephoros III in 1078 as a pretext for launching a full-scale assault against the empire. By 1081, either by a stroke of good fortune or by some creative manipulation there was waiting for him at Salerno a man who claimed to be Robert's son-in-law, the deposed emperor Michael VII.

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