Michael Asen
- Title
- Prince
Biography
Michael Asen was a son of Despot Sratsimir and Keratsa Petritsa and a brother of Tsar Ivan Alexander. He bore the name Asen through his maternal line, which went back to Tsar Ivan Asen II.
The sources preserve no detail of his activity; he is known chiefly as the father of Shishman, mentioned around 1356–1357 as an administrative figure in the region of Yambol.
Sources
- “Михаил е брат на цар Иван Александър; син на Кера[ца] Петра (Петрица) [и деспот Срацимир].”— Genealogy and Prosopography of the Asen Dynasty 1186–1460, p. 184