Tsar Ivan Asen IV
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Tsar Ivan Asen IV
Ivan Asen IV
Title: Tsar
Accession: 1336
End of rule: 1349
Period: Second Bulgarian Empire
Tsar Ivan Asen IV was the third son of Tsar Ivan Alexander, who had been proclaimed "great tsar" and had elevated his son to the title of "tsar". He was born of Tsar Ivan Alexander's first marriage to Theodora Basarab, daughter of the Bulgarian voivode Ivanko Basarab. Tsar Ivan Asen IV was married to a princess from the Wallachian Basarab family, a cousin of his mother, Theodora Basarab. He had two daughters from this union, but their names and history remain unrecorded.
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