Dragana of Serbia

Dragana
Empress consort of Bulgaria
Tenure	1380s–1395
Predecessor	Kira Maria
Successor	Vacant. Title next held by Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz as Princess of Bulgaria.
Spouse	Emperor Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
Father	Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia
Mother	Princess Milica Nemanjić
Born	Prilepac

Dragana (Bulgarian: Драгана) was a Bulgarian empress consort, second wife of Ivan Shishman (r. 1371–1395). She was a daughter of the Serbian prince Lazar and Milica Nemanjić. There are almost no historical sources about her. There is a text in the Boril obituary concerning the consorts of Ivan Shishman:

“

...To Kira Maria, the pious empress to the great emperor Ivan Shishman, eternal memory. To mistress Desislava, mother of the pious empress Maria - to the great emperor Ivan Shishman, called in angel's form Debora, eternal memory...[1]

”

Based on that text, the historian Plamen Pavlov has suggested a new theory about the empress. He assumes that since Lazar had no wife named Desislava, it is possible that the first wife of Ivan Shishman was Maria and Dragana was called Kira Maria, unless there is a mistake in the paragraph.^[1]

Footnotes

1. ^ ^{a b} Павлов, Пламен. Търновските царици. В.Т.:ДАР-ТХ, 2006.

Dragana of Serbia Born:  ? Died:  ?
Royal titles
Preceded by Kira Maria	Empress consort of Bulgaria 1380s–1395	Vacant Annexation by Ottoman Empire Title next held by Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz as Princess of Bulgaria