Sratsimir (; 1324–31) was a Bulgarian magnate with the title of
Despot, holding the territory of
Kran. It is unclear when he received the governorship of Kran; he held it before and during the reign of his son,
Ivan Alexander (r. 1331–71). He married
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 ...
, a member of the
Shishman dynasty
The House of Shishman (), also referred to as the Shishmanids or Shishmanovtsi (), was a medieval Bulgarian dynasty of Turkic Cuman origin. The House of Shishman ruled the Second Bulgarian Empire from the proclamation of Michael Asen III as emp ...
, with whom he had five children. He was the eponymous founder of the
Sratsimir dynasty
The House of Sratsimir or Sracimir (), also referred to as the Sratsimirovtsi (), was a medieval Bulgarian dynasty which became the last ruling house of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1331–1422). The Stratsimir dynasty was matrilineally descended ...
.
Issue
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Ivan Alexander, Despot of
Lovech
Lovech (, ) is a city in north-central Bulgaria. It is the administrative centre of the Lovech Province and of the subordinate Lovech Municipality. The city is located about northeast from the capital city of Sofia. Near Lovech are the towns of ...
, who ascended on the throne as emperor of Bulgaria after a coup d'état in 1331.
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Helena
Helena may refer to:
People
*Helena (given name), a given name (including a list of people and characters with the name)
*Katri Helena (born 1945), Finnish singer
* Saint Helena (disambiguation), this includes places
Places
Greece
* Helena ...
, married Serbian King
Stefan Dušan
Stephen (honorific), Stefan Uroš IV Dušan ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош IV Душан), also known as Dušan the Mighty ( sr-Cyrl, Душан Силни; – 20 December 1355), was the King of Serbia from 8 September 1331 and Emperor of th ...
in 1332.
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John Komnenos Asen
John Komnenos Asen was the ruler of the Principality of Valona from 1345 to 1363, initially as a vassal of the Serbian Empire, and after 1355 as a largely independent lord. Descended from high-ranking Bulgarian nobility, John was a brother of ...
, who was made Despot of
Valona by his brother-in-law
Stefan Dušan of Serbia.
*Michael, Despot of
Vidin
Vidin (, ) is a port city on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as of the Metropolitan of Vidin (since ...
*Theodora
References
Sources
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*{{cite book, author=T︠S︡onko Enev, title=Vladetelskite namestnit︠s︡i na Bŭlgarii︠a︡, VII-XIX vek, url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gjQXAQAAIAAJ, year=1997, page=xv
14th-century Bulgarian people
Medieval Bulgarian nobility
Sratsimir dynasty
Despots of the Second Bulgarian Empire