Shishman II

Shishman, king Michael III Shishman Assen's third son from his marriage with Ana-Neda, sought asylum with the Tatars and appeared in Constantinople as a pretender for the Bulgarian Throne in the summer of 1341. The Bulgarian king Ivan Alexander insisted on the Byzantines' deporting his "worst enemy from the Shishmans", but the empire, reluctant to miss the opportunity to interfere into the its northern neighbour's internal affairs, threatened to send Shishman with a fleet to Bdin where…