Nielsen Hayden genealogy

Iwan Asen I, Tsar of Bulgaria

Male Abt 1150 - 1196  (~ 46 years)


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Generation: 1

  1. 1.  Iwan Asen I, Tsar of Bulgaria was born about 1150; died in 1196.

    Family/Spouse: Elena. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 2. Iwan Asen II, Tsar of Bulgaria  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1190; died in Jun 1241.


Generation: 2

  1. 2.  Iwan Asen II, Tsar of Bulgaria Descendancy chart to this point (1.Iwan1) was born about 1190; died in Jun 1241.

    Notes:

    Also called John Asen, John Asan.

    Iwan married Maria of Hungary in Jan 1221. Maria (daughter of András II, King of Hungary and Gertrud von Meran) died in 1237. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 3. Elena of Bulgaria & Vlachia  Descendancy chart to this point was born in 1224; died before 1254.


Generation: 3

  1. 3.  Elena of Bulgaria & Vlachia Descendancy chart to this point (2.Iwan2, 1.Iwan1) was born in 1224; died before 1254.

    Notes:

    Also called Elina Asenina.

    Elena married Theodoros II Doukas Laskaris, Emperor of Nicaea in 1235. Theodoros (son of Ioannes III Doukas, Emperor of Nicaea and Eirene Doukaina Komnene Laskarina) was born in 1222; died in Aug 1258. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 4. Eudokia Laskarina  Descendancy chart to this point was born about 1248 in Nicaea, Asia Minor; died in 1311 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain.


Generation: 4

  1. 4.  Eudokia Laskarina Descendancy chart to this point (3.Elena3, 2.Iwan2, 1.Iwan1) was born about 1248 in Nicaea, Asia Minor; died in 1311 in Zaragoza, Aragón, Spain.

    Notes:

    From Wikipedia (accessed 13 Dec 2021):

    Eudoxia was the fourth daughter of the Nicaean emperor Theodore II Laskaris and of Elena Asenina of Bulgaria. Eudoxia grew up as a princess at the court of Nicaea, where Constance II of Hohenstaufen, widow of her grandfather John III Doukas Vatatzes, also lived. As a young girl, Eudoxia was promised to the royal family of Aragon as a bride for their son, the future king Peter III of Aragon. After the Palaiologan usurpation of the imperial throne, both ladies (dowager empress Constance and Eudokia) fled, travelling the same route from Constantinople to Tende and Sicily, respectively, and, years later, both sought protection at the kingdom of Aragon under king James I.

    Soon after the re-conquest of Constantinople in 1261, Michael VIII Palaiologos, until then regent and co-emperor for the infant John IV Laskaris, had himself declared sole emperor, solidifying his position by having John IV blinded and imprisoned. John's three sisters, Eudoxia among them, were hurriedly married off to foreigners, so their descendants could not claim to the imperial succession.

    The young Eudoxia was married in Constantinople on 28 July 1261 to Count Guglielmo Pietro I of Ventimiglia and Tenda (1230–1283), count of Ventimiglia and Tende, a Ligurian region then at the service of Genoa, allies with Michael VIII. This marriage originated the house Lascaris de Vintimille, which stood until the 19th century as a powerful French family. [...]

    Before reaching 30, Eudoxia fled from Liguria to Aragon with her daughters Beatrice and Vatatza. Some say it was at the time of her husband's death or on being refused by him. Living at Xàtiva and Zaragoza and Castella, she travelled on diplomatic missions for King James II of Aragon.

    Eudokia married Guillaume Pierre I de Lascaris de Vintimille about 1263. [Group Sheet] [Family Chart]

    Children:
    1. 5. Jean I Lascaris  Descendancy chart to this point died before 1344.