Maria Beloslava Elena Tamara Kaliman Asen I Michael Asen Anna-Teodora Maria
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Asen
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Ivan Asen I
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Elena
Ivan Asen II, also known as John Asen II (Bulgarian: Иван Асен II, [iˈvanɐˈsɛnˈftɔri]; 1190s – May/June 1241), was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1218 to 1241. He was still a child when his father Ivan Asen I – one of the founders of the Second Bulgarian Empire – was killed in 1196. His supporters tried to secure the throne for him after his uncle, Kaloyan, was murdered in 1207, but Kaloyan's other nephew, Boril, overcame them. Ivan Asen fled from Bulgaria and settled in the Rus' principalities.
Boril could never strengthen his rule which enabled Ivan Asen to muster an army and return to Bulgaria. He captured Tarnovo and blinded Boril in 1218. Initially, he supported the full communion of the Bulgarian Church with the Papacy and concluded alliances with the neighboring Catholic powers, Hungary and the Latin Empire of Constantinople. He tried to achieve the regency for the 11-year-old Latin Emperor, Baldwin II, after 1228, but the Latin aristocrats did not support Ivan Asen. He inflicted a crushing defeat on Theodore Komnenos Doukas of the Empire of Thessalonica, in the Battle of Klokotnitsa in 1230. Theodore's empire soon collapsed and Ivan Asen conquered large territories in Macedonia, Thessaly and Thrace.
The control of the trade on the Via Egnatia enabled Ivan Asen to implement an ambitious building program in Tarnovo and struck gold coins in his new mint in Ohrid. He started negotiations about the return of the Bulgarian Church to Orthodoxy after the barons of the Latin Empire had elected John of Brienne regent for Baldwin II in 1229. Ivan Asen and the Emperor of Nicaea, John III Vatatzes, concluded an alliance against the Latin Empire at their meeting in 1235. During the same conference, the rank of patriarch was granted to the head of the Bulgarian Church in token of its autocephaly (independence). Ivan Asen and Vatatzes joined their forces in attacking Constantinople, but the former realized that Vatatzes could primarily take advantage of the fall of the Latin Empire and broke off his alliance with Nicaea in 1237. After the Mongols invaded the Pontic steppes, several Cuman groups fled to Bulgaria.
IvanAsenII, also known as John AsenII (Bulgarian: Иван Асен II, [iˈvanɐˈsɛn ˈftɔri]; 1190s – May/June 1241), was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1218...
emperor Robert of Courtenay in 1228, IvanAsenII was considered the most probable choice for regent of Baldwin II. Theodore thought that Bulgaria was...
IvanAsen I, also known as Asen I or John Asen I (Bulgarian: Иван Асен I; died in 1196), was emperor or tsar of Bulgaria from 1187/1188 to 1196 as co-ruler...
especially the ethnic background of the three Asen brothers (Teodor I Peter IV (Romanian: Teodor I Petru IV), IvanAsen I (Romanian: Ioan Asan I) and Kaloyan...
Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Tsars Kaloyan and IvanAsenII before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the early 15th century...
of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of IvanAsenII of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica...
1256 or 1257. He was the son of IvanAsenII and Irene Komnene Doukaina. He succeeded his half-brother, Kaliman I Asen. His mother or other relative must...
emperor than the Holy Roman emperor. The fifth ruler of the second empire, IvanAsenII (1218–1241) after 1230 extended his original title "Emperor of the Bulgarians"...
princess. She was the third wife of tsar IvanAsenII of Bulgaria. She was the mother of tsar Michael Asen I of Bulgaria. Irene was daughter of despotēs...
Bulgaria from 1256 until 1257. Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to a daughter of IvanAsenII of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus...
unknown. Kaliman AsenII was the son of sebastokrator Alexander, who was the younger brother of IvanAsenII of Bulgaria. Kaliman AsenII's mother is unknown...
Beograd and Braničevo. Anna Maria and IvanAsenII had several children, including: Elena, who married Theodore II Doukas Laskaris of the Nicaea. Thamar...
was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1241 to 1246. He was the son of IvanAsenII of Bulgaria and Anna Maria of Hungary. He was only seven when he succeeded...
to marry Elena Asenina in 1235, to forge an alliance with her father, IvanAsenII, Emperor of Bulgaria, against the Latin Empire of Constantinople. According...
chronicles. Peter IIIvanAsen I Kaloyan Boril IvanAsenII Kaliman Asen I Michael IIAsen Kaliman AsenII Mitso Asen Konstantin Tih Ivaylo IvanAsen III George...
Greek: Στενήμαχος), it was renamed in 1934 after the 13th-century tsar IvanAsenII. Asenovgrad also includes the districts of Gorni Voden and Dolni Voden...
his family in the Battle of Klokotnitsa by IvanAsenII of Bulgaria. When his sister Irene married IvanAsenII in 1237, John was released from captivity...
II conquered and dismantled it. A successful Bulgarian revolt in 1185 established a Second Bulgarian Empire, which reached its apex under IvanAsen II...
(1197–1207) IvanAsenII, Bulgarian emperor (1218–1241) IvanII, Bulgarian emperor (1298-1299) Ivan Stephen, Bulgarian emperor (1330–1331) Ivan Alexander...
important source for the history of the Second Bulgarian Empire. Tsar IvanAsenII (1218–1241) is the first Bulgarian ruler from whose reign coins are preserved...
IvanAsen Point (Bulgarian: Нос Иван Асен, ‘Nos IvanAsen’ \'nos i-'van a-'sen\) is a narrow rocky point projecting 680 m into Osmar Strait from the southeast...
proud to be married to a granddaughter of Tsar IvanAsenII, and he adopted the Bulgarian dynastic name Asen to enhance his claim to the crown. In the next...
II Laskaris (r. 1254–1258). She was daughter of Bulgarian Emperor IvanAsenII and Anna Maria of Hungary. Born in c. 1224 to Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Asen...
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