WI No Amorian Dynasty?

In 24 December 820 Emperor Leo V presided in the trial of his old friend Michael Comes Excubitorum now accused for conspiracy.
Leo V sentenced him to death and ordered his immediate execution by burning. However Leo's wife empress Theodosia upon hearing the sentence she was shocked and rushed to the chambers were the trial took place and asked for clemency since it was Christmas. Leo agreed then to postpone the execution for 26 December thus accepting his wife's plea not to desecrate the holy day.
But during the night men loyal to Michael freed him from Palace prisons and in the morning of 25 December Leo V was murdered inside the palace chapel of St. Stephen by Michael and his friends and was proclaimed Emperor as Michael II...
WI Leo V had declined his wife's petition and Michael was executed? How is History altered if Leo's reign continue's unchallenged and no Amorian dynasty ever exists?
 
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