Family
Ivan Shishman was married first to a Bulgarian named Kira Maria, who died in the early 1380s. His second wife was Dragana Lazarević, a daughter of Prince Lazar of Serbia and Milica Nemanjić and kin to the previous Serbian dynasty. His eldest son Alexander converted to Islam under the name Iskender, and died as governor of Smyrna in 1418, while his second son Fruzhin participated in revolts and campaigns against the Ottomans, trying to liberate his father's realm, and died in Hungary after 1444. It has been speculated by historians, such as Plamen Pavlov, that Patriarch Joseph II of Constantinople was an illegitimate son of Ivan Shishman. The claim is based on a Byzantine text which says "They said that he was an illegitimate son of the emperor Shishman."
Family tree of the Shishman Dynastyb| 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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