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Initially, he supported the full communion of the Bulgarian Church with the Papacy and concluded alliances with the neighboring Catholic powers, Hungary and the Latin Empire of Constantinople . He tried to achieve the regency for the 11-year-old Latin Emperor, Baldwin II , after 1228, but the Latin aristocrats did not support Ivan Asen. He inflicted a crushing defeat on Theodore Komnenos Doukas of the Empire of Thessalonica , in the Battle of Klokotnitsa in 1230.