Anna-Theodora Asenina of Bulgaria
Anna-Theodora Asenina (Bulgarian: Анна-Теодора Асенина) was a 13th-century Bulgarian princess, the daughter of tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria and princess Irene Komnene of Epirus.
Through her mother, Anna-Theodora was a granddaughter of Theodore of Epirus. Anna-Theodora married the sebastocrator Peter before 1253. They had a daughter, who married despotes Shishman of Vidin and founded the Shishman branch of the Asen dynasty.
Anna-Theodora was grandmother of tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria and great-grandmother of tsar Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria, tsar Ivan Alexander of Bulgaria and Helena of Bulgaria, the wife of king Stefan Uroš IV Dušan of Serbia.
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