The House of Shishman (), also referred to as the Shishmanids or Shishmanovtsi (), was a medieval

Bulgaria Bulgaria, officially the Republic of Bulgaria, is a country in Southeast Europe. It is situated on the eastern portion of the Balkans directly south of the Danube river and west of the Black Sea. Bulgaria is bordered by Greece and Turkey t ...

n dynasty of Turkic

Cuman The Cumans or Kumans were a Turkic nomadic people from Central Asia comprising the western branch of the Cuman–Kipchak confederation who spoke the Cuman language. They are referred to as Polovtsians (''Polovtsy'') in Rus' chronicles, as " ...

origin. The House of Shishman ruled the

Second Bulgarian Empire The Second Bulgarian Empire (; ) was a medieval Bulgarians, Bulgarian state that existed between 1185 and 1422. A successor to the First Bulgarian Empire, it reached the peak of its power under Tsars Kaloyan of Bulgaria, Kaloyan and Ivan Asen II ...

from the proclamation of Michael Asen III as emperor in 1323 to the deposition of his son Ivan Stephen in 1331 whereafter rule fell to the House of Sratsimir, who were matrilineal descendants of the Shishmanids. The Shishmanids were matrilineally descended from the earlier Asen dynasty and may also have been related to the immediately preceding Terter dynasty.

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Shishman of Vidin Shishman (; 1270s/1280s — before 1308/1313) was a Second Bulgarian Empire, Bulgarian nobleman (boyar) who ruled a semi-independent realm based out of the Danube, Danubian fortress of Vidin in the late 13th and early 14th century. Shishm ...

, Despot of

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** Michael Asen III, Bulgarian emperor (1323–1330; also known as ''Michael Shishman'') *** Ivan Stephen, Bulgarian emperor (1330–1331) *** Shishman, exile in the Byzantine Empire ***

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, exile in Naples ***

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, Despot ** Belaur, Despot of Vidin **

Keratsa Petritsa Keratsa Petritsa (, transliteration ''Keraca Petrica''; 1300–1337) was a Bulgarian noblewoman (''bolyarka''), wife of the sebastokrator Sratsimir and mother of the Bulgarian emperor Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria, Ivan Alexander and of the Serbian ...

, Empress of Bulgaria, married

Sratsimir Sratsimir (; 1324–31) was a Bulgarian magnate with the title of despot (title), Despot, holding the territory of Kran, Stara Zagora Province, Kran. It is unclear when he received the governorship of Kran; he held it before and during the reign ...

and was the mother of Ivan Alexander *** (→ '' Sratsimir dynasty'')

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