Shishman dynasty
Alexander
Firstborn son of the last Tarnovo tsar Ivan Shishman. According to Schiltberger, after the fall of Nikopol (1395/96) he entered Ottoman service and converted to Islam.
Biography
Alexander was the first-born son of the last Tarnovo tsar Ivan Shishman.
According to the traveller Johann Schiltberger, after the fall of Nicopolis (1395/96) Alexander entered Ottoman service and adopted Islam — a fate shared by more than one descendant of the Balkan ruling houses after the conquest, who preserved their standing in the new empire at the cost of their faith.
Sources
“Първороден син на Иван Шишман.”
— The Asen Family (1186–1460): Genealogy and Prosopography, p. 241
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