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<style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output 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class="infobox-caption" style="line-height:normal;padding-bottom:0.2em;padding-top:0.2em;">Coin attributed to Mitso Asen</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><a href="/wiki/Tsar_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsar of Bulgaria">Tsar of Bulgaria</a></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Reign</th><td class="infobox-data">1256–1257</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Predecessor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Kaliman_Asen_II_of_Bulgaria" title="Kaliman Asen II of Bulgaria">Kaliman Asen II</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Successor</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Constantine_Tikh_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria">Constantine Tikh Asen</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #e4dcf6;color:inherit;line-height:normal;padding:0.2em;"><div style="height: 4px; width:100%;"></div></th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">Before 1277/78</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Spouse</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Maria_Asenina_of_Bulgaria" title="Maria Asenina of Bulgaria">Maria</a> or <a href="/wiki/Anna-Teodora" title="Anna-Teodora">Anna/Theodora</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label"><a href="/wiki/Issue_(genealogy)" title="Issue (genealogy)">Issue</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Asen_III_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria">Ivan Asen III</a> <br /> <a href="/wiki/Kira_Maria_Asenina_of_Bulgaria" title="Kira Maria Asenina of Bulgaria">Maria</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><b>Mitso Asen</b> (<a href="/wiki/Bulgarian_language" title="Bulgarian language">Bulgarian</a>: <span lang="bg">Мицо Асен</span>, <i>Mico Asen</i>), not Micho Asen (Мичо Асен, <i>Mičo Asen</i>),<sup id="cite_ref-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Greek, Μύτζης, <i>Mytzēs</i>, was the <a href="/wiki/Tsar_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Tsar of Bulgaria">tsar of Bulgaria</a> from 1256 until 1257. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reign">Reign</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitso_Asen_of_Bulgaria&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Reign"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>Mitso Asen ascended the throne by virtue of his marriage to a daughter of <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Asen_II_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria">Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria</a> by <a href="/wiki/Irene_Komnene_of_Epirus" class="mw-redirect" title="Irene Komnene of Epirus">Irene Komnene of Epirus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name of his wife is nowhere specified; she has been traditionally identified as <a href="/wiki/Maria_Asenina_of_Bulgaria" title="Maria Asenina of Bulgaria">Maria</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but was perhaps more likely <a href="/wiki/Anna-Teodora" title="Anna-Teodora">Anna/Theodora</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The dates of his birth and death are unknown, and his antecedents are unclear, but neither his name (which is found in official contexts and is not the diminutive of "Michael"), nor his career described in the Byzantine sources allow an identification with <a href="/wiki/Michael_of_Bosnia" title="Michael of Bosnia">Michael</a>, the son of the <a href="/wiki/Rus%27_(people)" class="mw-redirect" title="Rus' (people)">Rus'</a> prince and <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Hungary" title="Kingdom of Hungary">Hungarian</a> <a href="/wiki/Ban_(title)" title="Ban (title)">Ban</a> <a href="/wiki/Rostislav,_Prince_of_Slavonia" class="mw-redirect" title="Rostislav, Prince of Slavonia">Rostislav Mikhailovich</a>, nor any other member of the house of <a href="/wiki/House_of_Chernihiv" class="mw-redirect" title="House of Chernihiv">Chernigov</a>. It is likely that, like his successor Constantine, the son of Tikh, Mitso Asen adopted the name <i><a href="/wiki/Asen_dynasty" title="Asen dynasty">Asen</a></i> after his accession to the throne.<sup id="cite_ref-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>He proclaimed himself emperor of Bulgaria after the murder of his wife's cousin, <a href="/wiki/Kaliman_II_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Kaliman II of Bulgaria">Kaliman Asen II</a>, in 1256. Although he might have acquired some support in the capital <a href="/wiki/Veliko_Tarnovo" title="Veliko Tarnovo">Tarnovo</a> and possibly in <a href="/wiki/Veliki_Preslav" title="Veliki Preslav">Preslav</a>, he was faced by the hostility of much of the provincial nobility.<sup id="cite_ref-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Indeed, it is unclear to what extent he was able to assert and maintain his control over the capital.<sup id="cite_ref-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Following an obscure unsuccessful campaign against <a href="/wiki/Theodore_II_Lascaris" class="mw-redirect" title="Theodore II Lascaris">Theodore II Lascaris</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Empire_of_Nicaea" title="Empire of Nicaea">Empire of Nicaea</a>, Mitso lost control even over the commoners.<sup id="cite_ref-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>When the nobility proclaimed <a href="/wiki/Constantine_Tikh_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Constantine Tikh of Bulgaria">Constantine Asen I</a> emperor instead, Mitso Asen and his family fled the capital in 1257 and attempted to resist from Preslav and then Mesembria (now <a href="/wiki/Nesebar" title="Nesebar">Nesebar</a>). In exchange for asylum and lands, he turned over Mesembria and its environs to Emperor <a href="/wiki/Michael_VIII_Palaeologus" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael VIII Palaeologus">Michael VIII Palaiologos</a> in 1261<sup id="cite_ref-9" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or 1263<sup id="cite_ref-10" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and sought refuge in Nicaea. He was given lands in the <a href="/wiki/Troad" title="Troad">Troad</a>, where he remained with his family, becoming the ancestor of the Byzantine branch of the Asenid dynasty. The date of his death is unknown, but it is likely that he was no longer alive in 1277/1278, when his son <a href="/wiki/Ivan_Asen_III" title="Ivan Asen III">Ivan Asen III</a> was put forward as a claimant to the Bulgarian throne by the <a href="/wiki/Byzantine_Emperor" class="mw-redirect" title="Byzantine Emperor">Byzantine Emperor</a> Michael VIII.<sup id="cite_ref-11" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The ample coinage attributed to Mitso Asen in earlier literature has been reassigned to his brother-in-law and predecessor <a href="/wiki/Michael_II_Asen_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Michael II Asen of Bulgaria">Michael Asen I</a> by Tenčo Popov.<sup id="cite_ref-12" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Family">Family</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitso_Asen_of_Bulgaria&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Family"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>By his marriage to Maria or Anna/Theodora of Bulgaria, Mitso had two known children: </p> <ol><li><a href="/wiki/Ivan_Asen_III_of_Bulgaria" class="mw-redirect" title="Ivan Asen III of Bulgaria">Ivan Asen III</a>, emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria 1279–1280.</li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kira_Maria_Asenina_of_Bulgaria" title="Kira Maria Asenina of Bulgaria">Kira Maria</a>, who married <a href="/wiki/George_I_of_Bulgaria" title="George I of Bulgaria">George Terter I of Bulgaria</a>, emperor of Bulgaria 1280–1292.</li></ol> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitso_Asen_of_Bulgaria&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit 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.reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-1">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Popov 2020: 35.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fine 1987: 172; Andreev et al. 2012: 494.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Zlatarski 1940: 471, n. 6; Božilov 1985: 110-111.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-4">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Mladjov 2012: 487-490.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Andreev et al. 2012: 494; Mladjov 2015: 273.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-6">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Božilov 1985: 111.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-7">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fine 1987: 172-173; Popov 2020: 35-36.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-8">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Andreev et al. 2012: 495.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-9">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Božilov 1985: 112.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-10">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fine 1987: 173.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-11">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Fine 1987: 173; Andreev et al. 2012: 495.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-12">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Popov 2020: 30-45.</span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Sources">Sources</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitso_Asen_of_Bulgaria&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Sources"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <ul><li>Andreev, Jordan, et al., <i>Koj koj e v srednovekovna Bălgarija</i>, 3rd ed., Sofia, 2012.</li> <li>Božilov, Ivan, <i>Familijata na Asenevci (1186–1460)</i>, Sofia, 1985.</li> <li>Fine, John Van Antwerp, <i>The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest</i>, Ann Arbor, 1987.</li> <li>Mladjov, Ian, "The Children of Ivan Asen II and Eirēnē Komnēnē," <i>Bulgaria Mediaevalis</i> 3 (2012) 403-418 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/8020576/I_Mladjov_The_Children_of_Ivan_Asen_II_and_Eirene_Komnene_Bulgaria_Mediaevalis_3_2012_403_418">online</a></li> <li>Mladjov, Ian, "Monarchs' Names and Numbering in the Second Bulgarian State," <i>Studia Ceranea</i> 5 (2015) 267-310 <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.academia.edu/24858150/I_Mladjov_Monarchs_Names_and_Numbering_in_the_Second_Bulgarian_State_Studia_Ceranea_5_2015_267_310">online</a>.</li> <li>Popov, Tenčo, <i>Studii vǎrhu bǎlgarskoto srednovekovno monetosečene s izvodi za istorijata</i>, Sofia, 2020.</li> <li>Zlatarski, Vasil, <i>Istorija na bălgarskata dăržava prez srednite vekove</i> 3: Vtoro Bălgarsko Carstvo: Bălgarija pri Asenevci (1187–1280)<i>, Sofia, 1940.</i></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=Mitso_Asen_of_Bulgaria&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit 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