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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.
The couple had five children – four sons (Kardam, Kiril, Kubrat and Konstantin) and a daughter, Kalina, all of whom subsequently married Spaniards. [6] 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).
One of the sons of Ivan Vladislav and Maria was named Presian / Prousianos (briefly Tsar of Bulgaria in 1018), which was also the name of the great-grandfather of Tsar Peter I, suggesting that the blood of the Krum dynasty had been transmitted to the children of the couple. [7] A Bulgarian priest, Paisij de Chilendar, identifies Maria as "a ...
Name Father Born Married Became Consort Ceased to be Consort Died Spouse Elena - 1170s 1183 1190 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 ...
She was called just Smiltsena (Bulgarian: Смилцена; the wife of Smilets). By her he had at least three children: Ivan II, who succeeded as emperor of Bulgaria 1298–1299/1300; Teodora of Bulgaria, Queen of Serbia; Marina
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"
Theodore Svetoslav was the son of George Terter I by his first wife, Maria. Given the rarity of the name Svetoslav in Bulgaria and its ample use among the Rjurikid princes, Plamen Pavlov has proposed that Maria was the daughter of Jakov Svetoslav by his wife, an unnamed granddaughter of Ivan Asen II.