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Mihail Assen

Mihail Assen

Male 1321 - 1354  (33 years)    Has more than 100 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Mihail Assen  
    Birth 1321 
    Gender Male 
    Death 1354 
    Siblings 3 Siblings 
    Person ID I78152  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 14 Nov 2009 

    Father Tsar Ivan Alexander Asen   d. 17 Feb 1371 
    Mother Teodora Bassaraba   d. 1340 
    Marriage Abt 1320 
    Family ID F32309  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Irene Palaiologina,   b. 1327   d. Aft 1356 (Age 30 years) 
    Marriage 1336  Adrianopolis Find all individuals with events at this location 
    Family ID F175057  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 18 Sep 2009 

  • Notes 
    • co-ruled c. 1332\endash 1354/5)
      his father acceded to the throne in 1331, the young prince was proclaimed co-Emperor. He was to succeed his father under the name Michail IV Asen. The heir to the throne was the pride of the royal family and was said to possess "all virtues". He married Maria, renamed Irina, the daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Andronikos III Palaiologos and his second wife Anna of Savoy .
      In 1354-1355 the Ottoman Turks invaded Bulgaria and headed towards Plovdiv and Sofia . It is mentioned in an anonymous Bulgarian chronicle that Michail Asen gathered the Bulgarians and engaged the Turks near Sofia. The Bulgarians were defeated and suffered heavy casualties including Michail himself. But the battle was not in vain: the Ottomans failed to capture the cities and did not attack the country up to 1370. In the Bulgarian folklore is mentioned that the son of the Emperor perished with the death of the brave.



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