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	'''Constantin Bodin''' (''Konstantin Bodin''), king of ] ]–], and '''Peter III''' (''Petăr III'') as emperor (]) of ] for a short time in ]. The date of his birth is unknown; that of his death is uncertain, and may be as late as ].

	==Origin==
	Constantine Bodin was a son of King ] (Mihajlo I) of Duklja (or Zeta) and Neda. His father Michael was the son of Prince Stefan Vojislav by an unnamed granddaughter of Emperor ].

	==Emperor of Bulgaria (Peter III)==

	In ] the Bulgarian noblemen in ] raised a revolt against ] rule under the leadership of George Voitekh (Georgi Vojteh), a descendant of the former Bulgarian court nobility. The rebels asked King Michael I of Zeta to provide one of his sons, as descendants of the ], to assume the Bulgarian throne.

	In the fall of ] Constantine Bodin, Michael's seventh son, arrived in Prizren with a small retinue of Zetan troops and met with George Voitekh and other representatives of the Bulgarian nobility. They escorted him to Skopje and crowned him emperor of the Bulgarians under the name Peter III, recalling the names of the sainted Emperor ] (Petăr I, who had died in ]) and of ] (Petăr II Deljan, who had led the first major revolt against Byzantine rule in ]–]).

	The troops of the newly-crowned Peter III took ] and ], but suffered a crippling defeat in front of ]. The Byzantine counter-attack took Skopje with the help of George Voitekh, who betrayed first Peter III, and then attempted to betray the Byzantines, but in vain. In another battle Peter III was taken captive by the Byzantines and sent, together with George Voitekh, as prisoner to ]. George Voitekh died ''en route'', while the former Peter III languished in prison first at Constantinople and then at ].

	==King of Zeta (Constantine Bodin)==

	In about ] ] sailors rescued Constantine Bodin from captivity and returned him to his father Michael I of Zeta. Shortly afterwards, in ], Michael died, and Constantine Bodin succeeded his father as king.

	By ], he and his brothers had suppressed a revolt by their cousins, the sons of Michael's brother Radoslav in the ''župa'' of Zeta, and Constantine Bodin ruled unchallenged. In spite of his earlier opposition to the ], Constantine Bodin at first supported the Byzantines against the attack of ] and his ] on ] in ], but then stood idle, allowing the Normans to take the city.

	At about this time, Constantine Bodin married the daughter of a pro-Norman nobleman from ]. Constantine Bodin's relations with the west included his support for ] in ], which secured him a major concession, the upgrading of his Bishop of Bar to the rank of an Archbishop.

	Constantine Bodin attempted to maintain the englarged realm left him by his father. To do so, he campaigned in ] and ], installing his nephews Marko and Vukan as ''župans'' in the latter. The two princes were sons of Constantine Bodin's half-brother Petrislav, who had governed Raška in about ]–]. However, after the death of Robert Guiscard in ], Constantine Bodin was faced by the hostility of the Byzantine Empire, which recovered Durazzo and prepared to punish the king of Duklja for siding with the Normans.

	The Byzantine campaign against Duklja is dated between ] and ] and may have succeeded in taking Constantine Bodin captive for the second time. Although the kingdom survived, outlying territories including Bosnia, Raška, and Hum (Zahumlje) seceded under their own governors. Exactly what happened in Duklja is unknown, and there may have been a civil war during Constantine Bodin's possible captivity. Queen Jakvinta ruthlessly persecuted possible claimants to the throne, including Constantine Bodin's cousin Branislav and his family. After a number of these persons were killed or exiled by Constantine Bodin and his wife, the church managed to keep the impending blood feud from sparking off a full-blown civil war.

	On Constantine Bodin's death in ] or possibly ], Duklja was engulfed in the conflict caused by the dynastic strife that had begun to develop during his reign.

	==Family==
	By his wife Jakvinta of Bari, Constantine Bodin had several children, including:
	# Michael II (Mihajlo II), king of Duklja c. 1101-1102
	# George (Juraj), king of Duklja c. 1118 and 1125-1127

	==External links==
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	==References==
	* John V.A. Fine Jr., ''The Early Medieval Balkans'', Ann Arbor, 1983.

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