Ivan Asen V ( bg, Иван Асен V) was the second son of emperor Ivan Alexander (r. 1331-1371) and his second wife

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(r. 1337-1371). He was probably named after his elder brother Ivan Asen IV who died in 1349 in battle against the

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near

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.Fine, ''Late Medieval Balkans'', p. 366. Together with his father and younger brother

Ivan Shishman Ivan Shishman ( bg, Иван Шишман) ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria in Tarnovo from 1371 to 3 June 1395. The authority of Ivan Shishman was limited to the central parts of the Bulgarian Empire. In the wake of the death of Ivan Alexan ...

, Ivan Asen V presided over the church synods at Tarnovo in the late 1360s. In his burial inscription ordered by

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, the first wife of his elder brother

(r. 1371-1395), is written that he was buried in 1388 after he was killed by the Turks. It was written that he was in danger of "falling from the grace of the faith" which means that he was probably allured by the Ottomans to convert to

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. From the same inscription is known that the prince had two daughters whose names were not mentioned.

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