Jovan Vladimirとは 意味・読み方・使い方

Jovan Vladimir (Serbian Cyrillic: Јован Владимир; † 22 May 1016) was ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from ca. 1000 to 1016. He ruled during the protracted war between the Byzantine Empire and the First Bulgarian Empire. He was in close relations with Byzantium, which did not save Duklja from the expansionist Tsar Samuel of Bulgaria, who conquered the principality in ca. 1010 and took Jovan Vladimir prisoner. According to a 13th-century chronicle, Samuel's daughter Theodora Kosara fell in love with the captive, and begged her father for Jovan Vladimir's hand. He sanctioned the marriage, returning Duklja to his new son-in-law to rule as his vassal. Vladimir was acknowledged as a godly, just, and compassionate ruler. He ruled in peace, evading involvement in the major conflict. The war culminated with Samuel's defeat by the Byzantines in 1014, shortly after which the tsar died. Jovan Vladimir fell victim in 1016 to a plot by Ivan Vladislav, the last ruler of the First Bulgarian Empire. He was beheaded in front of a church in Prespa.