Michael III
Though Basil I and the Macedonian dynasty displaced the Amorian Dynasty, it is possible that Theodora, through Michael III, is the ancestor of all Macedonian emperors succeeding Basil I. Michael III's mistress, Eudokia Ingerina, married Basil I around 865. Before Michael III's death in September 867, Eudokia Ingerina gave birth to the future Leo VI the Wise. Contemporaries and modern historians believed that it is plausible that Leo VI, legally the son of Basil I, was fathered by Michael III.