Shishman dynasty

Desislava

Daughter of tsar Ivan Alexander by his second marriage to Sarah-Theodora and one of his youngest children, a sister of Vasilisa.

Biography

Desislava was a daughter of Tsar Ivan Alexander from his second marriage to Sara-Theodora and one of his youngest children, a sister of Vasilisa.

She is named among the royal daughters in the Synodikon and in the family portraits of the age, but the sources preserve no other detail of her life.

“Десислава е дъщеря на Теодора II [Сара].”
— The Asen Family (1186–1460): Genealogy and Prosopography, p. 234