Balkan 9

The house of Aseniden

This family apparently descends from a Wallachian boyar, who had issue a follows:

A1. Iwan Asen I, he and his brother Peter rebelled against the Byzantines and he became Prince of northern Bulgaria (ca 1187-96), +murdered by his cousin Iwanko-Alexios 1196
- B1. Iwan Asen II, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1218-41), *ca 1190, +1241; 1m: Anna N; 2m: 1221 Maria of Hungary, heiress of Belgrade and Branicevo (*ca 1204, +1237); 3m: 1237/38 Irene Angelina, dau.of Emperor Theodoros of Epirus
  - C1. [1m.] Marija; m.ca 1225 Manuel Dukas, Despot of Thessaloniki
  - C2. [1m.] Beloslava, +after 1285; m.ca 1233 King Stefan Vladislav of Raska
  - C3. [2m.] Elena, *ca 1224, +ca 1254; m.1235 Emperor Thodoros II Laskaris of Nicaea (*1222 +1258)
  - C4. [2m.] Tamara, *after 1220
  - C5. [2m.] Koloman I, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1241-46), *ca 1232, +1246
  - C6. [3m.] Miachael II Asen, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1246-57), *ca 1238, +murdered by Kalojan 1257; m.1255 Elisabeta of Chernigov (+1272-98)
  - C7. [3m.] Teodora=Anna; m.Sebastokrator Pjotr
  - C8. [3m.] Marija; m.Iwan Milo, a boyar, who contended for the throne in 1258
    - D1. Iwan Asen III Mytzes, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1279-80), fled from Iwailo to the Tatars and then to Constantinople, +ca 1302; m.1278 Irene Palaiologina; their children took the surname Asan
      - E1. Michael Asanes, a military leader in Macedonia for the Byzantines, then supported Serbia
      - E2. Andronikos Asanes, Despot of Morea, Stattholder of Thrace, +after 1355; m.N, a dau.of Michael Dukas Glabas Tarchaneitos
        F1. Manuel Komnenos Raul Asanes, Stattholder of Bizye, Thrace; m.ca 1321 Anna, dau.of Theodoros Synadenos
        G1. Joannes Asanes
        G2. Andronikos Asanes, a military leader in Thrace
        
        F2. Joannes Assanes, Stattholder of Constantinople; m.ca 1347 N, a dau.of Alexios Apokaukos
        G1. Anna Asanina; m.Joannes Kontosephanos
        
        F3. Irene, Empress of Byzantium -cr 21.5.1347, later a nun under the name of Eugenia after 10.12.1354, *ca 1300, +btw IV.1363-1379; m.before 1320 Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos of Byzantium (*1292, +15.3.1382)
        F4. Helene Asanina, +young
      - E3. Isaakios Asanes, a mercantile leader in Constantinople, +ca 1351; 1m: before 1320 Theodora, dau.of the Tatar Khan Abaga; 2m: NN; all kids were 2m.
        F1. Andronikos Asanes
        F2. Michael Asanes, Stattholder in Morea, +there before 1383
        F3. Irene Asanina; m.1346/51 Georgios Philanthropenos, archon of Lemnos
        F4. Andreas Asanes, Stattholder in Morea
      - E4. Konstantinos Asanes
        F1. Michael Asanes, Stattholder on Lesbos, +ca 1355; m.before 1330 Irene, dau.of Joannes Synadenos
      - E5. Manuel Asanes
      - E6. Theodora Asanina; (m.Manuel Tagaris)
      - E7. Maria Asanina; m.Roger de Flor, a Catalonian leader
      - E8. Anna Asanina, engaged to Michael Dukas Angelos, of Neopatrai
    - D2. Keramarija; m.Georgi Terter, Tsar of the Bulgarians (+1292)
- B2. Alexander, +ca 1241; m.N, a dau.of King Stephen Prvovencani of Serbia
  - C1. Kalojan=Koloman II, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1257-58); m.N, a dau.of Rostislaw, Gr Pr of Kiev
A2. Peter II, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1185-87)+(1196-97), +murdered 1197
A3. Kalojan, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1197-1207), *ca 1170, +murdered 1207; m.a Kuman princess
- B2. Marija, +after 1216; m.1209 Henry of Flanders, Emperor of Constantinople (+11.7.1216)
A4. a daughter; m.a boyar
- B1. Alexii Slaw, Voivode of Melnik, +after 1229; 1m: Constantinople 1208 N, an illegitimate dau.of Henry of Flanders, Emperor of Constantinople; 2m: after 1218 N, a dau.of Theodoros Petraliphas
A5. a daughter, m.the boyar Strez
- B1. Boril Strez, Tsar of the Bulgarians (1207-18), overthrown and blinded; m.a Kuman princess
- B2. Dobormir Strez, sovereing Prince of the lands between the Struma and Vardar, +1208/11; 1m: 1199 N, a dau.of Manuel Kamytzes Komnenodukas; 2m: 1201/02 Theodora, dau.of Isaakios Komnenos

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