Gavril Radomir of Bulgaria

Infobox_Monarch | name =Gavril Radomir
title =Tsar of Bulgaria


reign =October 1014 - August 1015
coronation =
predecessor =Samuil of Bulgaria
successor =Ivan Vladislav of Bulgaria
consort =Marguerite of Hungary
Irina from Larissa
issue =Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria
four sons
royal house =Comitopuli
royal anthem =
father =Samuil of Bulgaria
mother =Agatha
date of birth =
place of birth =
date of death =1015
place of death =
buried =|

Gavril Radomir ( _bg. Гаврил Радомир) was the ruler of Bulgaria from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of Samuil of Bulgaria, and he came to the throne following his father's death.

Around the same time that Emperor Basil II captured the bulk of Samuil's army, Gavril and his forces defeated the army of Teofilakt Votaniat. Having inherited Samuil's war with the Byzantine Empire, Gavril Radomir raided Byzantine territory, reaching as far as Constantinople. Unfortunately for him, however, the Byzantines secured the assistance of his cousin Ivan Vladislav, whose life Radomir had once saved. Ivan murdered Radomir while hunting near Ostrovo, and then took the throne for himself.

Gavril Radomir married twice. Gavril Radomir's son, Peter (II) Delyan of Bulgaria, would play a role in attempting to secure independence for Bulgaria several decades later. He is one of the candidates suggested to be father of Agatha, wife of Edward the Exile.

Family tree

familytree | | | | | | | | CmN |~|y|~| RoA
CmN=Comita
Nikola
RoA=Ripsimia
of Armeniafamilytree | Aar | | Mos | | Dav | | Sam |~|y|~| Aga
Dav=David
Mos=Moses
Aar=Aron
Sam=Samuil
of Bulgaria
Aga=Agathafamilytree | IvV | | ThK | | Mir | | EoL |~|y|~| GvR |~|y|~| HP
IvV=Ivan
Vladislav
Mar=Marija
GvR=Gavril
Radomir
ThK=Theodora
Kosara
Mir=Miroslava
HP=Hungarian
princess
EoL=Eirene of Larissafamilytree | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | SnD | | | | PeD
PeD=Peter Delyan
SnD=several sons
& daughters

ources

cite book
last =Zlatarski
first =Vasil
title =History of Bulgaria in the Middle Ages (Istoria na balgarskata darzhava prez srednite vekove, История на българската държава през средните векове) Vol. 1, Part 2,
publisher =Marin Drinov Academic Publishers
date =1994
location =Sofia
url =http://www.promacedonia.org/vz1b/index.html
isbn =9544302999

Footnotes

ee also

*History of Bulgaria
*Comitopuli dynasty
*Bitola inscription