Michael Asen II

Timeline

1. 1271–1272Tarnovo · TarnovoAfter Smilets was overthrown in 1271, the young son Michael was proclaimed tsar, though actual power lay with a regent faction. In the aftermath of the Ivaylo uprising and a palace coup in 1272, Michael was deposed again, and he spent the following decades in exile.
2. 1301–1310Constantinople · ConstantinopleAfter Theodore Svetoslav acceded in 1300, Michael II still maintained the legitimate succession claim of the Smilets line and is believed to have lived in exile in Byzantium or nearby regions. Between 1301 and 1310 he failed to return and seize the throne, but old Smilets partisans and some nobles still regarded him as a potential rival, forming a latent opposition to the reigning tsar.