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Dragana Lazarević

Field	Value
consort	yes
name	Dragana Lazarević
image	File:Dragana.jpg
succession	Empress consort of Bulgaria
reign	1390s–1395
spouse	Emperor Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria
spouse-type	Spouse
house	Lazarević
father	Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia
mother	Princess Milica Nemanjić
birth_date	1371
birth_place	Prilepac
death_date

| spouse-type = Spouse Dragana Lazarević (, ; 1371·1395) was a Serbian princess and the Empress consort of Bulgaria as the second wife of Ivan Shishman (r. 1371–1395). She was a daughter of the Serbian Prince Lazar and Princess Milica Nemanjić.

Early life

Dragana was a daughter of Lazar and Milica Nemanjić, thus belonged to the Lazarević and Nemanjić dynasties. She was likely the second of five daughters, and was named after her paternal aunt Dragana, the wife of magnate Musa.

Dragana married into the Bulgarian dynasty in ca. 1386 at a time when her father tried to consolidate the Balkan rulers and magnates through marriage alliances in order to plan for conflict with the Ottoman Empire.

Consort

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, Bulgarian historian Plamen Pavlov suggested a new theory about her; he assumed 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.

References

Sources

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