Asens in Byzantium
Alexander Asen
A third-generation Byzantine Asen who lived in Constantinople; his exact place in the pedigree is undetermined. Founder of a mixed Byzantine-Venetian branch through his daughter Irene Asenina.
Biography
Alexander Asen belonged to the third generation of the Byzantine Asens, born probably around 1320–1325; his exact place in the family tree remains undetermined. He lived in Constantinople, in the Kynegos quarter.
He is known chiefly as the founder of a mixed Byzantine-Venetian branch: his daughter was Irene Asenina, and through her his grandson Marco de Bernardo Asen, who was already of age in 1395.