Elena Asenina of Bulgaria

Elena Asenina of Bulgaria was the daughter of Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Asen II and Empress Anna Maria of Hungary; Anna was originally named Mária.

Life

Elena was a Bulgarian princess and empress of Nicaea. It was with Laskaris Theodore II, who was emperor of Nicaea from 1254-1259, married. Princess Elena was the sister of Emperor I. Kaliman Asen and Princess Tamara of Bulgaria. Her maternal grandparents were King Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Andechs- Meranien, while her paternal grandparents Emperor Ivan Asen I. of Bulgaria and Empress Elena Evgenia from Bulgaria were.

First Elena Asenina was with Baldwin II of Courtenay, the last emperor of the Latin Empire, engaged.

Elena and Theodore had three children: John IV Laskaris, Irene Doukaina Laskarina, the later Constantine Tich Asen married, and Mary Doukaina Laskarina that Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas with, the despot of Epirus, was married.

Theodore died in 1259, whereupon his son, John Lascaris was emperor of Nicaea. Since John, however, was at this time only seven years old, a regency was created.

Swell

• John V. A. Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans. A critical survey from the late 12th century to the Ottoman conquest. University Press, Ann Arbor, Mich.. 2006, ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5 ( Nachdr d ed Chicago 1987).
• Alexander Kazdan (ed.): The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium. Oxford University Press, New York, 1991, ISBN 0-19-504652-8 ( 3 vols, especially here Vol. 1).
• Hugh Chisholm (ed.): Encyclopædia Britannica. 11th Edition Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1911.
• Charles Cawley: Ivan Asen II 1218-1241, 1241-1246 I. Kaliman, Michael II Asen 1246-1257. Medieval Lands. Foundation for Medieval Genealogy 2006/07.

• House Asen
• Bulgarian
• Born in the 13th century
• Died in the 13th or 14th century
• Woman
• Monarch (Bulgaria)