Tenure 1380s–1395 Died 1395 Children Fruzhin | Predecessor Kira Maria Spouse Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria Siblings Olivera Despina | |
Successor Vacant. Title next held by Eleonore Reuss of Köstritz as Princess of Bulgaria. Father Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia Mother Princess Milica Nemanjić Parents Lazar of Serbia, Princess Milica of Serbia Similar Lazar of Serbia, Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria, Princess Milica of Serbia, Vuk Lazarević, Olivera Despina | ||
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:
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.
It is possible that she was the mother of Fruzhin and Alexander.
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