Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Mahaifin Ivan Asen, Ivan Asen I, yana ɗaya daga cikin shugabannin biyu na babban tayar da hankalin Bulgarians da Vlachs
a kan Daular Byzantine a shekara ta 1185. Mutanen Cumans masu ƙaura, waɗanda suke zaune a filayen Pontic, sun goyi bayan 'yan tawaye, suna ba su damar dawo da Daular Bulgaria. Da farko daular ta ƙunshi tsaunukan Balkan da filayen da ke arewacin tsaunuka har zuwa Lower Danube. Ivan Asen I an yi masa lakabi da "basileus" (ko sarki) na Bulgarians daga kusan 1187. An haifi dansa da sunan sa tsakanin 1192 da 1196. An kira mahaifiyar yaron Elena, "sabuwar tsarina mai ibada" (ko sarauniya), a cikin "Synodikon na Tzar Boril".