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Simeon I (893–927) was the first Bulgarian ruler to rule as tsar.His official title translates to "Emperor of the Bulgarians and the Romans". Evidence concerning the titles used by the rulers of the First Bulgarian Empire (681–1018) prior to the conversion to Christianity in the 860s is scant.
The last Bulgarian royal family (Bulgarian: Българско царско семейство, romanized: Balgarsko tsarsko semeystvo) is a line of the Koháry branch of the House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, which ruled Bulgaria from 1887 to 1946.
Tsar Reign House Claim Portrait Name (Birth–Death) Reign start Reign end Duration Ferdinand I Фердинанд I 1861–1948 (Lived: 87 years) 5 October 1908 3 October 1918 (Abdicated) 9 years, 363 days Saxe-Coburg and Gotha-Koháry: Proclaimed himself as Tsar: Boris III Борис III 1894–1943 (Lived: 49 years) 3 October 1918 28 August 1943
Maria was a daughter of Boris II, tsar of Bulgaria from 969-977 (though he spent 971-977 as a captive of the Byzantines). [1] It is believed that Maria was married to Ivan Vladislav in the late 10th century. Her husband's father was Aron, the brother of Tsar Samuel (Samuil) of Bulgaria; Samuil had succeeded her father. In 987 Samuel ordered his ...
husband's accession: 1196 husband's death: after 1196 Ivan Asen I: Anna of Cumania: a Cuman aristocrat - - 1197 husband's accession: 8 October 1207 husband's death - Kaloyan: 1207/08 -unclear if she was repudiated or died as consort - Boril: Elisabeth of Courtenay: Peter II of Courtenay, Latin Emperor 1199 1213 1218 husband's desposition: after ...
Saint Ivan of Rila (876–946), the patron saint of the Bulgarian people Tsar Ivan-Asen II (1191–1241), led the Second Bulgarian Empire to its largest territorial extent Saint John Kukuzel (1280–1360), composer, singer and reformer of the Orthodox Church music, known as the "Angel-voiced"
After 1001 Basil II launched annual campaigns on Bulgarian territory, reversing the odds of war into the Byzantines' favour. Many Bulgarian fortresses had been conquered by force or treason by the time Ivan Vladislav came to the throne. Ivan Vladislav was the son of Aron, the brother of Emperor Samuel (r. 997–1014) of the Cometopuli dynasty.
All of his sons received names of Bulgarian Tsars, his daughter has a Bulgarian name, although only four of his eleven grandchildren have Bulgarian names (Boris, Sofia, Mirko and Simeon). Kardam (1962–2015) married Miriam Ungría y López. They had two sons, Boris and Beltran.