The House of Sratsimir or Sracimir (), also referred to as the Sratsimirovtsi (), 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 which became the last ruling house of 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 ...

(1331–1422). The Stratsimir dynasty was matrilineally descended from the previous Bulgarian royal houses of Asen and Shishman. After its deposition following the Ottoman conquest of Bulgaria, princes of the Sratsimir dynasty survived in exile in the neighbouring

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until at least the second half of the 16th century.

Family tree

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 ...

, ''despot'', married to

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 ...

(sister of Michael Asen III) ** Ivan Alexander, Bulgarian emperor (1331–1371) *** Michael Asen IV, Bulgarian junior co-emperor *** Ivan Asen IV, Bulgarian junior co-emperor *** Ivan Sratsimir, Bulgarian emperor in

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 ...

(1356–c. 1397) **** Constantine II, Bulgarian emperor in

(c. 1397–1422) **** Dorothea, Queen of Bosnia, married

Tvrtko I of Bosnia Stephen Tvrtko I ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Stjepan/Stefan Tvrtko, Стјепан/Стефан Твртко; 1338 – 10 March 1391) was the first king of Bosnia. A member of the House of Kotromanić, he succeeded his uncle Stephen II ...

***** (→ ''

Kotromanić dynasty The House of Kotromanić ( sr-cyrl, Котроманић, Kotromanići / Котроманићи) was a late medieval Bosnian noble and later royal dynasty. Rising to power in the middle of the 13th century as bans of Bosnia, with control ove ...

'') *** Ivan Shishman, Bulgarian emperor in

Tarnovo Veliko Tarnovo (, ; "Great Tarnovo") is a city in north central Bulgaria and the administrative centre of Veliko Tarnovo Province. It is the historical and spiritual capital of Bulgaria. Often referred to as the "''City of the Tsars''", Velik ...

(1371–1395) ****

Alexander Alexander () is a male name of Greek origin. The most prominent bearer of the name is Alexander the Great, the king of the Ancient Greek kingdom of Macedonia who created one of the largest empires in ancient history. Variants listed here ar ...

**** Joseph II, Patriarch of Constantinople (1416–1439) **** Fruzhin, claimant Bulgarian emperor (1422–1460), Count of Temes ***** Shishman ****** Mihul (Michael) Bozyasi ( 1463) ****** Istvan (Stephen) Bosyazi ( 1463–1464) ****** Sandrin (Alexander) Shishman ( 1464–1467), commander of Severin ******* Philip Shishman ******** Istvan Shishman (16th century) ******** Radoslav Shishman (16th century; 1515) ******** Vladislav Shishman (16th century) ******** Ferenc Shishman (died 1550) ********* Durma Shishman de Gattaya (second half of the 16th century) ***** Stoyan ( 1454) ***** Stoyko ( 1454) ***** Stanislav ( 1454) ***** ''Daughters'' **** *** Ivan Asen V, Bulgarian junior co-emperor *** Kera Tamara, married a "despot Constantine"; later part of the

harem A harem is a domestic space that is reserved for the women of the house in a Muslim family. A harem may house a man's wife or wives, their pre-pubescent male children, unmarried daughters, female domestic Domestic worker, servants, and other un ...

of Ottoman sultan

Murad I Murad I (; ), nicknamed ''Hüdavendigâr'' (from – meaning "Head of state, sovereign" in this context; 29 June 1326 – 15 June 1389) was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1362 to 1389. He was the son of Orhan Gazi and Nilüfer Hatun. Mura ...

*** Desislava *** ** Helena, Empress of Serbia, married Stefan Dušan of Serbia *** (→ ''

Nemanjić dynasty The House of Nemanjić ( sr-Cyrl, Немањић, Немањићи; Nemanjić, Nemanjići, ) was the most prominent Serbian dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages. This princely, royal and imperial house produced List of Serbian monarchs, twelv ...

'') ** John Komnenos Asen, Despot of Valona (c. 1345–1363) *** Alexander Komnenos Asen, Despot of Valona (c. 1363–1371) *** ''Daughter'', married

Balša II Balša Balšić ( sr-cyr, Балша Балшић; ; died 18 September 1385) or Balša II was the Lord of Lower Zeta from 1378 to 1385. He was a member of the Balšić noble family, which ruled Zeta (with Scutari) from 1362 to 1421. Early life ...

**** (→ ''

Balšić noble family The House of Balšić ( sr-Cyrl, Балшићи; ), or Balsha, were a noble family that ruled " Zeta and the coastlands" (current-day southern Montenegro and northern Albania), from 1362 to 1421, during and after the fall of the Serbian Empire. ...

'') ** Michael **

Later claims

Two later Bulgarian rebels during the Ottoman period, Ivan Shishman II (1598) and Rostislav Stratimirovic (1686) claimed descent from the Sratsimir dynasty, though their genealogies are unverified.

Sources

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