Elena Asenina of Bulgaria

Elena of Nicaea

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

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

Elena and Theodore had three children: John IV Laskaris, Eirene Doukaina Laskarina, who married Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria, and Maria 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 severn years old and there were regency.

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