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.
Unnamed daughter of tsar Smilets
„wife of despot Aldemir”
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An unnamed daughter of tsar Smilets. By 1298 she was married to despot Aldemir (Eltimir), brother of George I Terter, who received the region of Kran as her dowry — the origin of the despotate of Kran. Theodore Metochites calls her husband a vagabond fugitive who became the bridegroom of the beloved daughter of Smilets' wife. After the marriage she disappears from the sources.
- “В края на царуването на Смилец част от това владение с център крепостта Крън била дадена като зестра на Тертеровия брат деспот Елтимир, който се оженил за дъщерята на Смилец.”— History of Bulgaria from the 7th to the 14th century, p. 785