- Dragana of Serbia
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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
Dragana of SerbiaBorn: ? Died: ?Royal titles Preceded by
Kira MariaEmpress consort of Bulgaria
1380s–1395Vacant Annexation by
Ottoman EmpireTitle next held byEleonore Reuss of Köstritz
as Princess of BulgariaCategories:- Bulgarian consorts
- 14th-century Bulgarian people
- 14th-century Serbian royalty
- Women of medieval Bulgaria
- Women of medieval Serbia
- House of Lazarević
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