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.
Manuel Asen
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Manuel Asen was a son of Andrey Asen (governor of Lemnos) and an unnamed Asenina, born probably between 1395 and 1405. He is mentioned in the correspondence of John Chortasmenos.
Manuel died very young, unmarried, around late 1415 or the very start of 1416. An epitaph for him survives, in which he is named Manuel Asenovich.