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.
Michael Asen
Michael Asen is attested around 1335–1336 in connection with the trial against the metropolitan of Philippi, in the course of which the sons of Andronikos Asen were also condemned; two witnesses cited his words.
He can hardly be identified with any other known bearer of this name in the family, and so his exact place in the pedigree of the Asens remains undetermined.