Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria

Ivan Stefan ruled as emperor of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Serbia, a daughter of King Stefan Uro II Milutin of Serbia. Ivan Stephen was descendent to the Terter dynasty, the Asen dynasty and the Shishman dynasty, which were all of partial Cuman origin. After his fathers accenssion to the throne in 1323 Ivan Stefan was associated as coemperor. When Michael III Shishman divorced Anna Neda to marry Theodora Palaiologina, the daughter of Byzantine emperor Michael IX Palaiologos, in 1324, Ivan Stefan was exiled along with his mother and brother in a monastery. In the summer of 1330 he became emperor of Bulgaria with the help of his uncle Stephen Deanski. After he was deposed in a coup dtat by the Tarnovo nobility, he fled along with Anna Neda in the domains of his fathers brother Belaur in Ni and later to Dubrovnik. He was later expelled from there by Stephen Duan under the pressure of Ivan Alexander

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