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Tsar of the First Bulgarian Empire from 1014 to 1015
Gavril Radomir
(
Bulgarian
:
Гаврил Радомир
;
Greek
:
Γαβρι?λ Ρωμαν??
,
romanized
:
Gavriil Romanos
;
anglicized
as "Gabriel Radomir"; died 1015) was the emperor (
tsar
) of the
First Bulgarian Empire
from October 1014 to August or September 1015. He was the son of tsar
Samuel
(r. 997?1014).
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During his father's reign, his cousin
Ivan Vladislav
and Ivan's entire family were all sentenced by Samuel to death for treason. Gavril's intervention saved at least his cousin. He is said to have saved his father's life in the disastrous defeat of the
Battle of Spercheios
, and he was described as a gallant fighter.
[1]
Around the same time that Emperor
Basil II
captured the bulk of Samuel's army, Gavril and his forces
defeated
the army of
Theophylact Botaneiates
. Having inherited Samuel's war with the
Byzantine Empire
, Gavril Radomir raided Byzantine territory, reaching as far as
Constantinople
. However, the Byzantines secured the assistance of Ivan Vladislav, who owed his life to Radomir. Vladislav murdered Radomir while hunting near
Ostrovo
, and then took the throne for himself.
Some sources connect Gavril Radomir with the medieval dualist sect,
Bogomilism
, a popular heretic movement that flourished in the Bulgarian region of
Kutmichevitsa
during his and his father's reign.
[2]
Gavril married twice. His possible son
Peter Delyan
played a role in attempting to secure independence for Bulgaria several decades later.
Ian Mladjov inferred that
Agatha
, the wife of
Edward the Exile
, was granddaughter of Agatha Cryselia, daughter of Gavril Radomir, by his short-lived first marriage to a Hungarian princess thought to have been the daughter of
Duke Geza of Hungary
. According to the
Polish?Hungarian Chronicle
, that princess was Adelaide, the daughter of
Doubravka of Bohemia
and
Mieszko I of Poland
.
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