Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria
Bulgarian ruler · Historical Figures · Lived 1190 to 1241 · aged 51
Ivan Asen II, also known as John Asen II, was Emperor (Tsar) of Bulgaria from 1218 to 1241. He was still a child when his father Ivan Asen I - one of the founders of the Second Bulgarian Empire - was killed in 1196.
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His supporters tried to secure the throne for him after his uncle, Kaloyan, was murdered in 1207, but Kaloyan's other nephew, Boril, overcame them. Ivan Asen fled from Bulgaria and settled in the Rus' principalities.
