Alexander Komnin Asen

Alexander Komnenos Asen was a son of Despot John Komnenos Asen from his first marriage, and a nephew of Tsar Ivan Alexander. He belonged to the Epirote-Thessalian branch of the family, settled in the Greek lands around Ioannina.

The sources mention him sparingly, chiefly in connection with his father's domains in Epiros and Thessaly in the second half of the fourteenth century — a period in which the descendants of the Shishman house in the Greek lands manoeuvred between Serbia, Byzantium and the advancing Ottomans.