Ivan Dragushin
Ivan Dragushin | |
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| Father | Aldimir |
| Mother | Marina Smilets of Bulgaria |
Ivan Dragushin (Bulgarian: Иван Драгушин) was a Bulgarian nobleman, son of despot Aldimir from the Terter dynasty of the Second Bulgarian Empire.
Ivanʻs mother was
Stefan Uroš III
Dečanski.
Aldimir may have been murdered around 1305, as no activity of his is mentioned in later sources. His widow Marina and his son Ivan Dragushin managed to escape to
Kingdom of Serbia, where Marina's sister, Theodora, was married to the prince Stefan Dečanski. Having become a Serbian subject, Ivan Dragushin was installed by his first cousin King Stephen Dušan as a local ruler in the region of Macedonia. Donor's portraits of Marina and Ivan Dragushin exist in the Pološko Monastery near Kavadarci
, where Ivan Dragushin was buried before 1340. It is known Ivan and his wife Anna had a son, who is depicted with Marina in the church.
Sources
- ISBN 978-954-402-047-7.