Constantine Bodin
Constantine Bodin was 1082-1106 King of Raszien, and for a short time Tsar of Bulgaria.
Life
Constantine Bodin was the son of Mihailo Vojisavljević and was from 1082 to 1106 a Serbian king. The royal title he inherited from his father, who received the royal crown in exchange for political concessions church by Pope Gregory VII. His father built an archbishopric in Bar / Antivari to establish an organizing center for the Serbian Catholic Church. The Roman Curia was particularly interested in new emerging nations against the faith competitors in Ostrom, since one was interested in expansion just by schisms and the mutual excommunications of pope in Rome and Patriarch of Constantinople Opel 1052.
Under Constantine Bodin, the kingdom experienced its greatest expansion up to this point. He managed to unite almost all Serbian and other Slavic tribes who are not yet of other major government structures, such as the Bulgarian Empire, the Hungarians or Byzantium were subjected. He reigned over Zeta ( Dioklitien ) and the coastal countries ( Südmontenegro, Herzegovina, Dalmatia ), Raszien (West Serbia, Northern Montenegro) and Bosnia ( Central and Eastern Bosnia ), won wide areas along the Danube and in present-day Albania to Tirana. He was succeeded in 1106 by his brother Dobroslav.
Konstantin Bodin countered the Byzantine Empire and its rigorous Hellenisierungs and church politics even before he took power. As a family member of Komitopuli maternal and paternal inheritance of the house of Vojisavljević he took in 1072 with his father at the top of a Slavic revolt against Byzantium in today's Macedonia in part and was crowned in Prizren to the Bulgarian tsar. The uprising failed and the newfound Christian Orthodox title he could not give so much emphasis, with the support of his father, that he could keep it.
The majority of the population of the Bodinschen Empire was the latest of the missionary by the Apostles of the Slavs Methodius and Cyril, if they had enough christian, known only to the Greek Orthodox rite, what the subsequent assumption of power by his relatives, the Serbian rulers in Raszien, zugutekam. The empire collapsed and could not be unified under the banner of the Catholic faith interpretation. Only from the Serbian ruling dynasty of Urosevic and later the Nemanjic from the 13th century, which, through clever calculating between the Catholic and Greek Orthodox religious centers of power a establishment of the autocephalous Serbian Orthodox Church, it is possible a unifying force among the individual Serb tribes exercise.
Swell
- Born in the 11th century
- Died in the 12th century
- Man
- King ( Raszien )
- Person (Serbian history )
- History of Montenegro
- Zar (Bulgaria)
- Usurper ( Byzantine Empire )
- Monarch (Zeta)