Ivan Shishman belonged to the fourteenth-century royal family. The Gospel story shows him as a child, rather than in his later wars. The crown belongs to the presentation of the royal household; it does not by itself establish that every child shown already ruled independently. Was the son of Ivan Alexander and Theodora. Appears in the family miniature of 1355–1356. Later ruled the Tarnovo Tsardom. The same person can appear in sources at different ages and in different roles.
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History of Bulgaria
