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.
Anna Asenina Kondostephanina
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Anna Asenina belonged by birth to the great family of the Asens — in all likelihood a daughter of Despot Manuel Asen, although the sources do not allow this to be established with certainty. She was born around 1335–1340.
Between March and July 1357 she married the protosebastos, and later grand primikerios, John Kondostephanos — a descendant of the Kondostephanos family famous in the twelfth century and founder (together with his brother Alexios) of the Athonite monastery of Pantokrator. Together with her husband, Anna was a benefactor of the Athonite monasteries of Pantokrator and Vatopedi. She is mentioned for the last time in August 1374; she died before 1384.