Dobromir Chrysos
Dobromir, known to the Byzantines as Chrysos (Bulgarian: Добромир Хриз, Greek: Δοβρομηρός Χρυσός), was a leader of the Vlachs[1] and Bulgarians while Alexios III Angelos was Byzantine emperor. He became prominent in 1197 and is last heard of in 1202. He was a feudal ruler in Eastern Macedonia.
He was already married, but in order to cement an alliance with him the Emperor offered him a daughter of the Byzantine warlord Manuel Kamytzes. She was forced to divorce her husband and to marry Dobromir in 1198. About 1200 he took a third wife, the Emperor's granddaughter Theodora Angelina, who had previously been married to a rival leader, Ivanko and was afterwards to marry Leopold VI of Austria.
In 1202 the lands of Dobromir Chrysos were conquered by Bulgarian emperor Kaloyan.
[edit] Sources
- O city of Byzantium: annals of Niketas Choniates tr. Harry J. Magoulias (Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 1984) pp. 267–270, 277-280, 293-294.
[edit] Notes
- ^ The meaning of the term "Vlach" in this epoch and region was the subject of fierce dispute in the late 19th and 20th centuries (see also Kaloyan of Bulgaria).
[edit] Literature
- Томов, Т. Добромир Хриз, който владееше Просек и Струмица - Анамнеза, Т. 6 (2008), 97-114
- Macedonian prince's house (the lords of Strumica) (site)
