Ivanko of Bulgaria
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Ivanko (Bulgarian: Иванко) killed Ivan Asen I, ruler of the renascent Second Bulgarian Empire, in 1196.
In 1197 Ivanko, who was a Vlach according to the terminology used by Niketas Choniates, married Theodora Angelina, the daughter of Anna Angelina and Isaac Comnenus Sebastocrator. Theodora's father had died in Vlach-Bulgarian captivity not many months earlier.
Ivanko, given the Greek name Alexios, fought at first for his grandfather-in-law, the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus, but afterwards turned against him. He captured the general Manuel Camytzes in 1198; Camytzes was ransomed by his son-in-law, Ivanko's rival, Dobromir.
Theodora's stepfather, Anna's second husband Theodore Lascaris marched against Ivanko in 1200, and he was eventually captured by a trick.
[edit] Sources
- O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniates tr. Harry J. Magoulias (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984) pp. 257-259, 281-285.
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