Bulgarian ancestry of royals of Bulgaria

The deposed current , contrary to common misconceptions, and despite of the country having spent half a millennium under the, descends from earlier monarchs of , both the and the. Scholars have traced several bloodlines in ancestry of tsar (1861-1948) and his wife  (1870-99), progenitors of the present. The main pedigree (below) has been presented by genealogists to show sort of a continuous line through various Bulgarian states and to highlight the dynasty of their successors.

Through a number of genealogical lines, the descends from
 * Maria of the, granddaughter of Tsar , a member of the family, and
 * Tsars, ,  and ultimately from , himself one of the brothers who founded the.

Pedigree
generations numbered:

2) Tsar m Marija

3) Troian of Bulgaria

4) m

5) m

6) m Konstantinos Angelos

7) Andronikos Angelos m Euphrosyne Kastamonitissa

8) m

9) Eirene Komnene Angelina m Aleksios Komnenos Palaiologos

10) Theodora Palaiologina m Andronikos Doukas Komnenos Palaiologos

11) m Theodora Doukaina Komnena Palaiologina, granddaughter of Dux of  (she also descends from Maria, through  and, daughter of  the Saint)

12), m Tsar , maternal grandson of  (10th generation), himself son of  (9th generation)

13) Andronikos Palaiologos Asanes,, Governor of m Doukaina Glabaina Tarchaneiotissa

14) Eirene Asanina m

15), co-emperor of m Eirene Palaiologina

16) Demetrios Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, sebastokrator, Despot of Morea

17) Jerina Kantakuzina (Eirene Kantakouzene) m, Overlord of

18), of , blind, canonized as saint, m Angelina from Albanian dynasty

19) Maria of Rascia (Maria Kantakouzene) m (Bonifatios Palaiologos), great-great-grandson of Theodoros Palaiologos, 1st Paleologue Lord of, himself grandson of Emperor Michael VIII and Theodora Doukaina Batatzaina of Thrakesion

20)  (William "Second Lazar" Palaiologos) m Anne of Alencon, descendant of, khan of

21) (Margarita Palaiologina) m Duke

22), Gonzaga Mantua, m Eleanor, daughter of and Anna of Bohemia

23) m Eleanor of Tuscany

24) m

25) m, great-grandson of Margaret of Montferrat

26) m

27), Queen of Poland m

28) and  m Elisabeth of Orleans

29) m

30) m, himself a descendant of Margaret of Montferrat

31) m, himself descendant of Margaret of Montferrat through her younger son, the first Gonzague.

32) m  of  (a, himself a descendant of the  of Croatia and thus of Ivan Asen II, see below)

33), m , herself descendant of Emperor Francis I

34) m, daughter of  - the Savoy are descendants of several lines from Byzantine emperors and thus Bulgarian tsars.

35) m Margarita Gomez-Acebo y Cejuela

Through Palatines of Hungary to Kohary
The brothers, Todor and Ivan,  of, founded the , at that time West , after almost two centuries of Byzantine yoke over the.

Another line from Tsars of both the first and the second Empires goes through lords of southern borders of medieval Hungary - when the nuclear Serbian was lost to Ottoman Turkish in c 1460, Jovan, a son of princely  house, received so-called Raitzen lands for emigrated Serbians to settle and govern in Danube valley (near the lost ) as fief from the Hungarian throne.

(as above: 1), one of the founders of Second Bulgarian Empire

2) m Eirene Komnene Angelina, daughter of

3) Maria of Bulgaria, m tsar

4) m Eirene Palaiologina, daughter of, herself descendant of Maria of the First Bulgarian Empire

5) Andronikos Palaiologos Asanes

6) m Emperor

7), co-emperor

8) Demetrios Palaiologos Kantakouzenos

9) Eirene Kantakouzene m

10), saint) whose son Jovan, born of n heiress Angelina:)

11) Jovan Brankovic, Prince of, Prince of

12) Marija Brankovic m Ferdinand, lord of , ban of

13) Catherine Frangipani (Katalin Frankopan) m

14) Catherine Zrinski (Katalin Zrinyi) m Ferenc de

15) Gyorgy Thurzo de Bethlenfalva,

16) Judith de m Andreas Jakusith de

17) Emerich de Orbova the elder

18) Emerich the younger

19) Maria Polixena Josefa Jakusith de Orbova m Albert Ludwig Thavonat von Thavon

20) Margaret Maria Theresa Thavonat von Thavon m Andras Joszef, Count of Kohary

21) Ignaz Joszef, Count of Kohary

22) (Ferenc) Joszef, of Csabrag and Szitnya m Maria Antonia Valdŝtejna z Vartemberka (from Bohemia, another descendant of Katalin Frankopan and Miklos Zrinyi through their youngest daughter Borbala Zrinyi)

23) Antonie de Kohary m Ferdinand of

24) August of Saxe-Coburg-Gotha, Prince of Kohary m

25) m Marie Louise of Bourbon-Parma

26) m, daughter of

27)

through Counts of Tenda
brothers Todor and Ivan, ]], after almost two centuries of Byzantine yoke over the.

1)

2) m (Ana) Maria of Hungary, daughter of

3) m  of Nicea (Theodoros Doukas Batatzes), a descendant of Maria of the First Bulgarian Empire

4) Eudokia Laskarina m Guillaume Pierre de Vintimille,

5) Ioannes, Count of Ventimiglia and Tenda

6) Guillaume Pierre II of Tenda and Vintimille

7) daughter m Pietro Balbi, Count of Tenda iure uxoris

8) Antonios Laskaris, Count of Tenda

9) Honorios Laskaris, Count of Tenda

10) Ioannes Antonios Laskaris, Count of Tenda

11) Anna Laskarina, Countess of Tenda m René de Savoie,, batard de Savoie, descendant of Maria Komnene, Queen of Jerusalem, a descendant of Maria of Bulgaria.

12) Honorios of Savoy,, Count of Tenda

13) Henrietta of Savoy, Marchioness of m  de ,

14) Catherine of Lorraine-Guise m Charles Gonzaga, Duke of Nevers was as (descendant of the Palaiologos Marquesses of Montferrat, see above)

15) Anne de Gonzague-Nevers-Mantoue m and Rhine

16) m, descendant of the daughter of Anna Laskarina and Rene de Savoie

17)

18) Louise Elisabeth de Bourbon-Condé m, descendant of the daughter of Anna Laskarina and Rene de Savoie

19) Louise Henriette de Bourbon-Conti m

20) Louis Philippe Joseph, Duke of Orleans m Louise Marie Adelaide de Bourbon-Penthievre, herself daughter of Louis Jean de Bourbon, Duke of Penthievre and Maria Theresa Felicitas of Este of Modena (she descended from the too)

21) Louis-Philippe, King of the French (m Maria Amalia of the Two Sicilies the aforementioned), whose daughter was the mother of Ferdinand I of Bulgaria (thus Ferdinand is the 23rd generation from founding of the Second Empire), as presented above.

and the line from counts of Tenda to Marie Louise:

15) Anne of Gonzaga-Nevers-Mantua (above) m and the Rhine

16) Benedikte Henriette of Palatinate m, Duke of

17) m

18), queen of Poland m

19) m

20) m

21)

22) Maria Teresia of Austria-Teschen m

23) Maria Pia of Bourbon-Sicily m

24) (m Ferdinand I of Bulgaria) became Princess-Consort of Bulgaria and mother of.