Elena of Bulgaria

Elena of Bulgaria was daughter of Bulgarian Emperor Ivan Asen II and Empress Anna Maria of Hungary. Anna was originally named Mária.

Elena was a Bulgarian princess and Empress of Nicaea. She was married to Theodore II Laskaris, who was Emperor of Nicaea, 1254–1258.

Princess Elena was the sister of Emperor Kaliman I of Bulgaria and Princess Tamara of Bulgaria.Her maternal grandfather and grandmother are King Andrew II of Hungary and Gertrude of Merania and her paternal grandfather and grandmother are Emperor Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria and Empress Elena of Bulgaria.

First Elena was betrothed to Baldwin II of Courtenay, the last Latin emperor.

Elena and Theodore had three children:
John IV Laskaris, Irene Doukaina Laskarina, who married Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria, andMaria Doukaina Laskarina, who married Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas of Epirus.

Theodore died in 1259 and her son John Laskaris became Emperor of Nicaea. John was only seven years old and there were regency.

See also

*Theodore II Laskaris
*Anna Maria of Hungary
*Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
*John IV Laskaris
*Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria
*Nikephoros I Komnenos Doukas

References

* cite book
title = Medieval Lands
last = Cawley
first = Charles
chapter = Ivan Asen II 1218–1241, Koloman I 1241–1246, Mihail II Asen 1246–1257
url = http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/
chapterurl = http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/BULGARIA.htm#_Toc137439355
publisher = Foundation for Medieval Genealogy
date = 2006–2007
* cite book
url = http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Balkans/
chapterurl = http://www.globusz.com/ebooks/Balkans/00000018.htm
title = The Balkans: A History of Bulgaria, Serbia, Greece, Romania and Turkey
publisher = Globusz Publishing
chapter = The Rise and Fall of the Second Bulgarian Empire: 1186–1258
origyear = 1915
isbn = 0404024572
last = Forbes
first = Nevill
coauthors = Arnold J. Toynbee, D. Mitrany, D.G. Hogarth
*John V.A. Fine, Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans, Ann Arbor, 1987.
* "The Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium", Oxford University Press, 1991.
*1911