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.
Demetrios Asen
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Demetrios Asen is known from three documents of the Athonite monastery of Xeropotamou, which present him as the owner of estates (fields and vineyards) in Chalkidike. He died shortly before July 1349, leaving the monastery part of his property in return for maintenance and perpetual commemoration.
His membership of the Asen family is not entirely certain — Ivan Bozhilov notes that his modest social standing does not fully match that of the family. If he is an Asen, he is of the second generation and had two daughters — Tomais and Philippa Asenina.