Constantine Bodin (Montenegrin: Konstantin Bodin, Serbian Cyrillic and Bulgarian: Константин Бодин) was a member of the Serbian noble House of Vojislavljević and the king of Duklja (1081–1101), and for a short time in 1072 he was emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria by name Peter III (Bulgarian: Пeтър III, Petăr III). The date of his birth is unknown; that of his death is uncertain, and may be as late as 1108.
Constantine Bodin was a son of King Michael I ...
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Constantine Bodin (Montenegrin: Konstantin Bodin, Serbian Cyrillic and Bulgarian: Константин Бодин) was a member of the Serbian noble House of Vojislavljević and the king of Duklja (1081–1101), and for a short time in 1072 he was emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria by name Peter III (Bulgarian: Пeтър III, Petăr III). The date of his birth is unknown; that of his death is uncertain, and may be as late as 1108.
Constantine Bodin was a son of King Michael I (Mihajlo I) of Duklja (or Zeta) and Neda. His father Michael was the son of Prince Stefan Vojislav by an unnamed granddaughter of Emperor Samuel of Bulgaria.
In 1072 the Bulgarian noblemen in Skopje raised a revolt against Byzantine rule under the leadership of Georgi Voiteh (Ѓорѓи Војтех, Георги Войтех), a descendant of the former Bulgarian court nobility. The rebels asked King Michael I of Zeta to provide one of his sons, as descendants of the House of the Kometopouloi, to assume the Bulgarian throne.
In the fall of 1072 Constantine Bodin,...
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