Jakob Swetoslaw

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Copper coin of Jacob Swetoslaw

Jakob Swetoslaw ( Bulgarian Яков Светослав ; † 1277 in Vidin ) was a Bulgarian bolyar and despot .

Life

Jakob Swetoslaw was of aristocratic Russian origin. In the 1230s he sought refuge in the Bulgarian Empire from attacks by the Mongols on the Russian principalities. As a bolyar, he achieved a high position in Bulgarian society. In 1257 he supported Konstantin Tich Assen in the successful fight against Tsar Mizo Assen , who had to flee to the Nikaia Empire .

After a victorious campaign against the Hungarian King Stephan V , Swetoslaw was married in 1261 to Theodora Dukaina Laskarina , a daughter of the Nicean emperor Theodor II. Dukas Laskaris and granddaughter of Ivan Assen II. At the same time, he received the despot title; possibly this title was bestowed on him directly by Byzantium due to the marriage connection with the Laskarid dynasty .

Svetoslav succeeded in the following period, through skillful maneuvering between the tsars in Tarnowo and the Hungarian kingdom as his nominal suzerain, to maintain a quasi-autonomous rule in northwestern Bulgaria and to rise to a promising contender for the Bulgarian tsarist throne. In his center of power, Vidin, he minted copper coins with the image of Saint Demetrios , protector of the House of Assen .

Svetoslav's policy was so successful that it became a serious threat to Maria Palaiologina Kantakuzene , who ruled Bulgaria after Konstantin Tich's death in the autumn of 1277. The Tsar's widow adopted him, but had him poisoned shortly after his return to Vidin. Svetoslav's daughter Maria was the wife of the future Tsar Georgi Terter .

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literature

  • Ivan Biliarsky: Word and Power in Mediaeval Bulgaria (= East Central and Eastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 450–1450. Vol. 14). EJ Brill, Leiden 2011, ISBN 978-90-04-19145-7 , p. 282.
  • Pál Engel: The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895–1526. Translated from the Hungarian by Tamás Pálosfalvi. IB Tauris, London 2001, ISBN 1-86064-061-3 , p. 175.
  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издашиа. Ул. Bd. 336; Византо. Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 142–144.
  • John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A critical Survey from the late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor MI 1994, ISBN 0-472-08260-4 , pp. 175-184.
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Ioannes G. Leontiades, Sokrates Kaplaneres: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 11. Fascicle: Σκαβαλέρος - Τιχόμηρος (= Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/11). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1991, ISBN 3-7001-1878-3 , p. 150 No. 27250.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 175.
  2. ↑ See Biliarsky, Word and Power , p. 282.
  3. ↑ See Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , pp. 178–179.
personal data
SURNAME Jakob Swetoslaw
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Яков Светослав (Bulgarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Bulgarian Boljar and Despot
DATE OF BIRTH 12th century or 13th century
DATE OF DEATH 1277
Place of death Vidin