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.
Irene Asenina Philanthropene
- Parents
- Siblings
Irene Asenina was a daughter of the panhypersebastos Isaac Asen — probably from his second marriage — and a sister of the grand primikerios Andronikos, of Andrey, and of Michael Asen. Through her marriage she entered the noble Byzantine family of the Philanthropenoi.
Together with her brother Andronikos she inherited part of the family holdings, among them the rights over the monastery of the Virgin that had once belonged to her father's first wife. Her name surfaces in the lawsuit of 1351 over the fate of this monastic property.
- “Дъщеря на паниперсеваст Исаак Асен (II, № 7) от втория му брак.”— Genealogy and Prosopography of the Asen Dynasty 1186–1460, p. 313