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Tsar of Bulgaria
Ivan Asen III
Tsar of Bulgaria
Reign
1279–1280
Predecessor
Ivailo
Successor
Georgi Terter I
Born
c. 1259/1260
Died
1303
Spouse
Irene Palaiologina
Father
Mitso Asen
Mother
Maria Asenina of Bulgaria
Ivan Asen III (Bulgarian: Иван Асен III, also Йоан Асен III, Ioan Asen III, and in English John Asen III), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen III was the son of Mitso Asen of Bulgaria and Maria of Bulgaria, a daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and Irene of Thessalonica. He was probably born in about 1259/60, and died in exile in 1303.
Fearing the rapid success of Ivaylo of Bulgaria, the Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos summoned Ivan Asen to his court, granted him the title of despotēs, and married him to his eldest daughter Irene Palaiologina in 1277 or 1278. Michael VIII then sent several Byzantine armies to attempt to assert Ivan Asen III on the throne of Bulgaria. Although Ivailo defeated several of these attempts, he was blockaded for three months in Drăstăr (Silistra) by the Mongol allies of Michael VIII. In the interval a Byzantine force besieged the Bulgarian capital Tarnovo and, hearing a rumor of Ivailo's death in battle, the local nobility surrendered and accepted Ivan Asen III as emperor in 1279.
To strengthen his position in Tarnovo, Ivan Asen III married his sister Maria (Kira Maria) to the Bulgaro-Cuman nobleman George Terter, but failed to assert himself throughout the country. Ivailo reappeared before the walls of the capital and defeated two Byzantine attempts to relieve Ivan Asen III. Despairing of success, Ivan Asen III and Irene Palaiologina secretly fled Tarnovo with choice treasures from the palace treasury, including pieces captured from defeated Byzantine Emperors in former victories. Reaching Mesembria (Nesebar), the imperial couple sailed for Constantinople, where the enraged Michael VIII refused to receive them for days for their cowardice.
In 1280 or 1281 Ivan Asen III traveled to the Golden Horde, competing with Ivailo in a bid to win support for restoration in Bulgaria. The Mongol chieftain Nogai Khan eventually had Ivailo murdered, but failed to restore Ivan Asen III in Bulgaria. The latter returned to his family possessions in the Troad, and died in 1303.
IvanAsenIII (Bulgarian: Иван Асен III, also Йоан Асен III, Ioan AsenIII, and in English John AsenIII), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria 1279–1280. Ivan Asen...
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exclusively in the languages of the Kipchak Turks The Asens in Byzantium largely descend from IvanAsenIII, who ruled briefly as Emperor of Bulgaria before...
Michael VIII changed his plan, married his eldest daughter Eirene to IvanAsenIII, a descendant of Bulgaria's ruling dynasty living at the Byzantine court...
of names such as Ivan II Asen (for IvanAsen II), George I Terter (for George Terter I) and Michael III Shishman (for Michael AsenIII). Names of clans...
Bulgaria from 1256 until 1257. Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to a daughter of IvanAsen II of Bulgaria by Irene Komnene of Epirus...
Bulgaria attacked the Byzantine army sent to help his rival for the crown IvanAsenIII. In 1277 in a popular uprising led by Ivailo broke out in north-eastern...
this situation and intervened in Bulgaria. He sent IvanAsenIII, son of the former Emperor Mitso Asen, to claim the Bulgarian throne at the head of a large...
VIII put forth his own candidate for the Bulgarian throne, IvanAsenIII, a son of Mitso Asen and Maria of Bulgaria, whom the emperor married to his daughter...
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made a despot by either his older brother or by the regency for Ivan II. When IvanAsenIII became emperor at Tărnovo in 1279 during the Uprising of Ivaylo...
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...
Alexander was a nephew of Michael AsenIII. Paternally, Ivan Alexander descended from the Asen dynasty. By 1330 Ivan Alexander was himself a despot and...
most powerful state in South-Eastern Europe. Around 1221–1222 Emperor IvanAsen II of Bulgaria made an alliance with Theodore Komnenos Doukas, the ruler...
Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Tsars Kaloyan and IvanAsen II before gradually being conquered by the Ottomans in the early 15th...
Michael AsenIII (Bulgarian: Михаил Асен III, Mihail AsenIII, commonly called Michael Shishman (Михаил Шишман, Mihail Šišman)), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria...
issue by either Ivan Stephen or his cousin Ivan Alexander, legitimizing the new monarch advertising his association with Michael AsenIII. Moreover, it...
Maria was a Bulgarian princess and daughter of Emperor IvanAsen II (r. 1218–1241) and Irene Komnene. As a child of her father's third marriage, she was...
15-year-old princess Maria Asanina, daughter of the Tsar of Bulgaria IvanAsenIII and Irene Palaiologina. De Flor was named Megas doux (Great Dux, i.e...
to a new Byzantine army and accepted IvanAsenIII as emperor. IvanAsenIII was enthroned, while Michael Asen II and Maria Kantakouzena, who was pregnant...
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1256 or 1257. He was the son of IvanAsen II and Irene Komnene Doukaina. He succeeded his half-brother, Kaliman I Asen. His mother or other relative must...
Emperor Ivaylo. The Emperor managed to temporarily impose his son-in-law IvanAsenIII on the Bulgarian throne, but after the Byzantine defeat at Devina he...
was ancestral to many of the later members of the Asen family. Her descendants assumed the name Asen Palaiologos. With Yolande of Montferrat, Andronikos...
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