Radoslaw (Sebastokrator)
Radoslaw ( Bulgarian Радослав , Middle Greek Ῥαδοσϑλάβος ; † after 1300) was a Bulgarian Boljar and brother of Tsar Smilez .
Life
Radoslaw came from a noble Bulgarian aristocratic family who owned lands both north and south of the Balkan Mountains in the 12th century . Together with his brothers Smilez and Wojsil , he ruled from Kopsis over the despotate Kran (Krunos) in the western Sredna Gora around 1284 . Smilez ascended the Bulgarian Tsar's throne in Tarnowo in 1292 as the successor to Georgi I Terter, who had fled to Byzantium .
After Smilez's death in 1298, his widow Smilzena Palaiologina secured the succession of her son Ivan IV. Smilez against the claims of her relatives. Radoslaw and Wojsil had to leave their possessions and went into exile with their families in Constantinople . Emperor Andronikos II , who wanted to stir up the turmoil and internal unrest in Bulgaria - there Iwan Smilez was overthrown by the Mongol Chaka Nogai in the autumn of 1299 and Todor Swetoslaw the following year - let Michael Tich Assen , the pretender to the throne, deposed in 1279 Son of Konstantin Tich , proclaimed the counter-tsar in Thessaloniki .
Radoslaw was raised to the rank of Sebastokrator and marched from Thessaloniki with a Byzantine army to Bulgaria to regain his domains which Todor Svetoslaw had given to his uncle Eltimir . In a battle near Krunos Radoslaw was taken prisoner together with 13 Byzantine generals. Eltimir blinded him and handed him over to the tsar; what became of him afterwards is unknown. Todor Swetoslaw exchanged the captured generals in 1301 for his father Georgi I Terter, who was still in Byzantine custody.
swell
- Georgios Pachymeres 266-267; 446 (ed. Albert Failler, CFHB Ser. Paris. Vol. 24/2, 1984)
literature
- §Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама§ (= Посебна издања . Vol. 336; Византолошки институт Vol. 8.). Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 145–147.
- Gyula Moravcsik : Byzantinoturcica. Vol. 2: Remnants of language from the Turkic peoples in the Byzantine sources (= Berlin Byzantine Works . Vol. 11). 3. Edition. EJ Brill, Leiden 1983, ISBN 90-04-07132-6 , p. 258.
- Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Ioannes G. Leontiades, Sokrates Kaplaneres: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 10. Fascicle: Πετούσσα - Σιχούη (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/10). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1775-2 , p. 94 No. 24018.
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| SURNAME | Radoslav |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Радослав (Bulgarian); Ῥαδοσϑλάβος (Middle Greek) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Bulgarian Boljar and brother of Tsar Smilez |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 13th Century |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1300 |