Asen dynasty
Tamara
A daughter of Ivan Asen II, named among the imperial daughters in the Synodikon of Boril. According to Akropolites she was considered as a wife for Michael Palaiologos (the future emperor Michael VIII), but the marriage did not take place.
Biography
Tamara was a daughter of Tsar Ivan Asen II, named among the royal daughters in the Synodikon of Boril. According to Akropolites she was considered as a wife for Michael Palaiologos — the future Byzantine emperor Michael VIII — but this marriage never came about.
Tamara remained unmarried for an unusually long time: by the date of the early marriage of her younger sister Anna-Theodora (1253) she was already 25–30 years old and still without a husband. The sources report nothing further about her later fate.
Sources
“Дъщеря на цар Иван II Асен … Тамара … [обмисляна за] брак … с Михаил Палеолог (бъдещия император Михаил VIII).”
— Genealogy and Prosopography of the Asen Dynasty 1186–1460, p. 104