Despite his nickname stratiotikos lit.'military man', Michael was not an active army officer until 1056, but instead a logothetes, responsible for the pay and provisioning of the imperial soldiers, see Theotokis & Mesko 2020, p. 59, note 43 Theotokis, Georgios; Mesko, Marek (2020). War in Eleventh-Century Byzantium. Taylor & Francis. ISBN9780429576881.
