Iwan Wladislav, Tsar of Western Bulgaria

Abt 975 - 1018  (~ 43 years)

• Name	Iwan Wladislav
  Suffix	Tsar of Western Bulgaria
  Birth	Abt 975  [1]
  Gender	Male
  Death	Feb 1018	Dyrrhachium, Albania   [1, 2]
  Person ID	I10699	Ancestry of PNH, TNH, and others | Ancestor of AP, Ancestor of DDB, Ancestor of DGH, Ancestor of DK, Ancestor of JTS, Ancestor of LD, Ancestor of LMW, Ancestor of TNH, Ancestor of TSW, Ancestor of TWK, Ancestor of UKL, Ancestor of WPF
  Last Modified	6 Jan 2018

  
  

  Father	Aron of Western Bulgaria   d. 14 Jun 976, Dupnitsa, Bulgaria
  Family ID	F3458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Marija,   b. Abt 975   d. Aft 1029 (Age ~ 55 years)
  Children	+ 1. Trajan, Khan of Western Bulgaria + 2. Alusian, Tsar of Bulgaria,   b. Abt 995
  Family ID	F5458	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	16 Jun 2018

  
  

• Notes

  Tsar of Bulgaria from Aug-Sep 1015 to Feb 1018. Killed in the Battle of Dyrrhachium. "Saved from death by his cousin Gavril Radomir, the Bulgarian Emperor, in 976, Ivan Vladislav murdered him in October 1015 and seized the Bulgarian throne. Due to the desperate situation of the country following the decades-long war with the Byzantine Empire, and in an attempt to consolidate his position, he tried to negotiate truce with the Byzantine emperor Basil II. After the failure of the negotiations he continued the resistance, attempting unsuccessfully to push the Byzantines back. During his period of rule, Ivan Vladislav tried to strengthen the Bulgarian army, reconstructed many Bulgarian fortresses and even carried out a counter-offensive, but died at the Battle of Dyrrhachium in 1018. After his death his widow, Empress Maria, the Patriarch and most of the nobility finally surrendered to Basil II, who soon suppressed the last remnants of resistance and brought about the end of the First Bulgarian Empire." [Wikipedia]

  
  

• Sources

  [S49] Genealogics by Leo Van de Pas, continued by Ian Fettes and Leslie Mahler. [S145] Ancestral Roots of Certain American Colonists Who Came to America Before 1700 by Frederick Lewis Weis and Walter Lee Sheppard, Jr. 8th edition, William R. Beall & Kaleen E. Beall, eds. Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Company, 2004, 2006, 2008., year only.