Dragana Lazarević

Dragana Lazarević (Serbian: Драгана Лазаревић, Bulgarian: Драгана Лазаревич; 1371·1395) was a Serbian princess and the Empress consort of Bulgaria as the second wife of Ivan Shishman (r. 1371–1395).

She was a daughter of the Serbian Prince Lazar and Princess Milica Nemanjić.

She was likely the second of five daughters, and was named after her paternal aunt Dragana, the wife of magnate Musa.

1386 at a time when her father tried to consolidate the Balkan rulers and magnates through marriage alliances in order to plan for conflict with the Ottoman Empire.

To mistress Desislava, mother of the pious empress Maria - to the great emperor Ivan Shishman, called in angel's form Debora, eternal memory...[3]Based on that text, Bulgarian historian Plamen Pavlov suggested a new theory about her; he assumed that since Lazar had no wife named Desislava, it is possible that the first wife of Ivan Shishman was Maria and Dragana was called Kira Maria, unless there is a mistake in the paragraph.