Family Tree of the Second Bulgarian Empire
23 reigning rulers across four dynasties — with their consorts, kin and the family's Byzantine branch
The Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396) was ruled by four successive dynasties — the Asen, Terter, Smilets and Shishman houses — from the uprising of the brothers Peter and Asen against Byzantium to the fall of Tarnovo to the Ottomans. This family tree charts every tsar and their relatives across those two centuries, together with the Asens in Byzantium: the descendants of Ivan Asen III, who lived on in Constantinople as the noble Asanes family. Switch between the houses with the tabs, expand a branch to follow a line, and select any name for their reign, family ties and the primary sources behind each fact.
Alexander Asen
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Alexander Asen belonged to the third generation of the Byzantine Asens, born probably around 1320–1325; his exact place in the family tree remains undetermined. He lived in Constantinople, in the Kynegos quarter.
He is known chiefly as the founder of a mixed Byzantine-Venetian branch: his daughter was Irene Asenina, and through her his grandson Marco de Bernardo Asen, who was already of age in 1395.