Background
She is sometimes alleged to be a daughter of Stefan Nemanja of Serbia, but this relationship is questionable and would have caused various canonical impediments to marriages between their descendants.
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Elena-Evgenia Elena-Evgenia of Bulgaria
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She was the mother of tsar Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria. Her antecedents are unknown. Elena married Ivan Asen I in 1183 at the age of thirteen.
Ivan Asen II, emperor of Bulgaria 1218–1241
Alexander (Aleksandăr), sebastokrator, who died after 1232.
Alexander had a son named Kaliman Asen II, emperor of Bulgaria in 1256
After the assassination of Ivan Asen I in 1196, Elena retired to a convent under the monastic name Evgenia (Bulgarian: Евгения). Her memory is honored in the Synodic of Bulgarian Church:.
