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.
Constantine Palaiologos Asen
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Constantine Palaiologos Asen was a son of Tsar Ivan Asen III (John III Asen) and Irene Palaiologina and bore the high court rank of sevastokrator. Together with his brothers he was among the prominent members of the Byzantine branch of the family.
In 1324 he is attested as a witness to the treaty with Venice. In the civil war between the two emperors Andronikos II and Andronikos III he held military positions in Thrace, where he suffered a defeat at the hands of Theodore Synadenos. His son was Michael (Komnenos Tornikes) Asen.
- “От този си брак той [Константин Асен] е имал най-малко един син — Михаил (II, № 23).”— Genealogy and Prosopography of the Asen Dynasty 1186–1460, p. 289