The House of Shishman

One Shishman, a boyar, declared himself indepent from Bulgaria and established the principality of Vidin, a city on the Danube; he had issue:

• A1. Michael III Shishman, Despot of Vidin, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1323-30), +1330; 1m: NN; 2m: ca 1300 (repudiated 1324) Ana of Serbia (after 1346); 3m: after VIII.1324 Theodora Palaiologina
  • B1. Iwan Stepan Shishman, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1330-31), thereafter he lived in Naples, +there ca 1373; m.N, an illegitimate dau.of Philip of Naples, Pr of Tarento
  • B2. Shishman, +in Dubrovnik
  • B3. Michael, Pr of Vidin
• A2. Belaur
• A3. Kereza Petriza; m.Despot Srazimir
  • B1. Iwan Alexander Asen, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1331-71), +17.2.1371; 1m: ca 1320 (repudiated 1340) Teodora Bassaraba; 2m: ca 1345 a Jewish woman named Sarah, who changed her name to Teodora
    • C1. [1m.] Michael Asen, co-tsar in Adrianople, *1321, +k.a.against the Turks 1354; m.Adrianople 1336 Irene Palaiologina (+after 1356)
      • D1. Alexios Asanes
        • E1. Irene; m.Paolo di Bernardo, a patrician of Venice
    • C2. [1m.] Iwan Sracimir, Pr of Vidin (1360-96), +after 15.9.1396; m.before 1369 Ana Slava Bassaraba
      • D1. Konstantin, +Belgrade 1422
      • D2. Dorothea, +ca 1390; m.King Stefan Tvrtko I of Bosnia
    • C3. [1m.] Iwan Asen, +k.a.against the Turks 1354
    • C4. [2m.] Iwan Shishman, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1371-93), +imprisoned at Phillipoli 1395; 1m: Maria N; 2m: Dragana, dau.of Knez Lazar of Serbia
      • D1. Alexander, a Moslem, Stattholder in Asia Minor and Smyrna, +k.a.1418
      • D2. Frutshin=Vladislav, a Hungarian diplomat in Albania
      • D3. Keraza
    • C5. [2m.] Iwan Asen
    • C6. [2m.] Tamara; m.1375 Sultan Murad I; NOTE: when the sources say a Christian lady married a Turkish sultan, it really means that the lady was taken into his harem as a concubine
    • C7. [2m.] Keratza, *1348, +1390; m.ca 1365 Emperor Andronikos IV Palaiologos of Byzantium (*1348 +1385)
    • C8. [2m.] Desislawa; m.Pr Konstantin of Welbuschd (+1394)
  • B2. Iwan Komnenos Asen, +ca 1363; 1m: NN; 2m: ca 1355 Anna, dau.of Andronikos Palaiologos
    • C1. Kominia, +1395/96; m.1372 Balsa II Balsic, Lord of Zeta (+1385)
  • B3. Elena, +1374; m.1332 King Stefan Dusan of Serbia (+1355)

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Last updated 10th December 2003