Stres - a Bulgarian aristocrat , a sevastocrat in the period 1211 - 1214 . He came from the Aseni dynasty. Nephew of Tsars Ivan Asen I , Peter Asen and Kaloyan . It is assumed that Stres is the brother of Tsar Boril .
| Stres | ||||
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| bulg. Stres | ||||
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| Birth | 2nd floor. 12th century | |||
| Death | 1214 | |||
| Kind | Aseni | |||
Independent Owner
After entering the Bulgarian throne of Boril, Stres fled to Serbia and found refuge at the court of Stefan Nemani . With the support of Serb troops, Stresz captured part of Macedonia. Stresk chose the impregnable fortress Prosek near the Vardar River as his capital. After that, Stresa tore the vassal oath to the Serbs and became an independent ruler. Its lands stretched from the Struma River to Ohrid , and according to some reports, he also owned Devol and Kastoria .
Stresz entered into an alliance with the Epirus despot Mikhail Komnin . Then Stres brought an oath of allegiance to the Latin emperor Heinrich of Flanders . In 1211 , Stres concluded an alliance and recognized the supremacy of Tsar Boril, who granted him the title of Sevastocrat. In practice, Stres remained independent. Stresa's attempt to capture the Thessaloniki kingdom ended in defeat.
In 1213 Tsar Boril and Emperor Henry made peace, and in 1214 Stres and Mikhail Komnin joined the anti-Serb coalition. For negotiations, the Serbian archbishop Savva arrived in the Stresa camp, who unsuccessfully tried to lure the ruler to the Serbian side. After the departure of the Archbishop, the Sevastocrat was killed under mysterious circumstances. After the death of Stresa, his possessions were seized by Stephen the First-Crowned . However, according to other notions, the lands of Stresa were transferred to the territory of Tsar Boril, and by 1218 they were occupied by the Epirus despot Theodore Komnin . After the battle on the river. Klokotnitsa (1230) in the time of Tsar Ivan Asen II, the region of Stresa was again annexed to the state territory of the Bulgarian kingdom. In the famous Synodic of Tsar Boril , the official monument of the Bulgarian Patriarchate in Tarnovo has the name "Sevastocrat Stresa" - evidence of his rehabilitation by the central authorities in medieval Bulgaria.
Literature
- “Own Prosek” - P. Mutafchiev, publishing house at the BAS, 1913
- “History in Bulgaria. Volume III - The Second Bulgarian Darzhava ”- Publishing House on the BAN, 1982
- “The history of the Bulgarian Dzhava prezd Middle Ages. Volume III. Second Bulgarian kingdom. Bulgaria under Asenevtsi (1187–1280) ”- Vasil N. Zlatarski, Science and Art Publishing House, Sofia, 1972
- “Pick up and take apart. Sabia and personalities from the Bulgarian Middle Ages ”- Plamen Pavlov ,“ Siela Publishing House ”, Sofia, 2010.
Source
- “The Life of Archbishop Savva” - Theodosius (Serbian scribe of the 14th century).