Shishman (son of Michael Shishman)

Shishman was a younger son of Tsar Michael Shishman of Bulgaria and his Serbian wife Ana, named after his grandfather Shishman of Vidin. After his father fell at Velbazhd in 1330, his brother Ivan Stephen briefly held the Bulgarian throne before being overthrown by Ivan Alexander in 1331.

While the rest of his family fled to Serbia and Dubrovnik, Shishman took refuge with the Golden Horde for about a decade. In 1341 he appeared in Constantinople, whose regent John Kantakouzenos refused Bulgarian demands to surrender him and armed to defend him. His later fate is unknown.