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-Maria of Hungary
- Spouse
- Children
Anna-Maria was a daughter of the Hungarian king Andrew II. She became the first wife of Tsar Ivan Asen II — a marriage that sealed the alliance between Bulgaria and Hungary in the first years of his reign.
From this marriage was born the son Kaliman Asen I, who inherited the throne as a child in 1241. Anna-Maria herself died early: by around 1237 Ivan Asen II was already free to enter a new, politically more advantageous marriage with Irene Komnene, daughter of the captive Epirote ruler Theodore Komnenos.
- “От брака си с унгарската принцеса Анна-Мария Иван II Асен имал син Калиман.”— History of Bulgaria from the 7th to the 14th century, p. 735