Family
Nothing is known about Ivan Stratsimir's first wife and children apart from their existence. Ivan Sratsimir married for a second time to his first cousin, Anna of Wallachia, a daughter of his uncle Nicholas Alexander of Wallachia, and had at least three children. Dorothea (Doroslava), married King Tvrtko I of Bosnia and became Queen of Bosnia while Constantine II succeeded him as Emperor of Bulgaria. Sratsimir also had another daughter, who died young at the court of Elisabeth of Poland.
Family tree of the Shishman Dynastya| Shishman |
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| Michael Shishman (r. 1323–1330) |
Belaur | Keratsa Petritsa, | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Ivan Stephen (r. 1330–1331) |
1. Shishman | 1. Michael, |
1. Ludovik | 2. Unknown | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Ivan Alexander (r. 1331–1371) |
John Komnenos Asen | Michael |
Helena |
Theodora | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Alexander Komnenus Asen, Xenia Ivanina Komnena | Shishman | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1. Michael IV Asen | 1. Ivan Sratsimir (r. 1356–1396) |
1. Ivan Asen IV | 1. Kera Tamara | 2. Keratsa-Maria | 2. Ivan Shishman (r. 1371–1395) |
2. Ivan Asen V | 2. Desislava | 2. Vasilisa | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Constantine II (r. 1397–1422) |
Dorothea | Unknown daughter | John VII Palaiologos (r. 1390) | 2 unknown daughters | Alexander | Fruzhin | Keratsa | 4 unknown; Patriarch Joseph II | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Shishman | 2 unknown | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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