Ivanko of Bulgaria

Ivanko ( Bulg Иванко ) was a Bulgarian Boljar, who was related to the house Asen.

1196 he went to the top of a Boljarenverschwörung, the deposed Tsar Ivan Asen I and the slew him. Ivanko could be appointed subsequently to the tsar. During the conspiracy, the sons of Tsar Ivan Asen II and Alexander fled to the Cumans. That same year, Ivanko, however, was overthrown by the older brother of Ivan Asen I., Peter IV, who ruled as Mitzar the intervention, from the throne. He fled to Byzantium, where he. Theodora Angelina, a granddaughter of Emperor Alexios III there Angelos, married and administrators ( strategos ) of a region in Thrace was. Under the Bulgarian Tsar Kaloyan he switched sides and fought successfully against the Byzantines, among others, in 1198 at the Battle of Batkun, when he took the army commander Manuel Kamytzes in captivity. In 1200 he was captured by a ruse by the Byzantines, so that he died with high probability in captivity.

Due to the assassination of Ivan Asen I. He is now popularly called Ivanko the murderer of Asen ( Bulg Ivanko ubieza na asenja ). Also an opera exists under that name.