Ivan Shishman II

{{Short description|Bulgarian rebel (1598)}}

Ivan Shishman II{{Cite book |last=Mutafchieva |first=Vera P. |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=7HU9AAAAMAAJ |title=Bulgaria's Past |date=1969 |publisher=Sofia-Press |pages=76 |language=en}} (Bulgarian: Иван Шишман) was a Bulgarian rebel proclaimed as tsar of Bulgaria in Tarnovo during the First Tarnovo Uprising (1598).{{Cite book |last=Georgescu |first=Vlad |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=khtpAAAAMAAJ |title=The Romanians: A History |date=1991 |publisher=Ohio State University Press |isbn=978-0-8142-0511-2 |pages=55 |language=en}}{{Cite book |last=Haskell |first=Arnold Lionel |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=iNAJAQAAIAAJ |title=Heroes and Roses: A View of Bulgaria |date=1966 |publisher=Darton, Longman & Todd |pages=22 |language=en}} He and the rebels briefly held control of Tarnovo, which had been the capital of the Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1395), until the uprising was crushed by the Ottoman Empire.

Ivan Shishman II claimed descent from the Second Bulgarian Empire's last ruling dynasty, the House of Sratsimir, allegedly from the tsar Ivan Shishman ({{Reign}}1371–1395).{{Cite book |last=Снегаров |first=Иван |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=MjLRAAAAMAAJ |title=Културни и политически връзки между България и Русия през XVI-XVIII в |date=1953 |publisher=Синодално книгоиздательство |pages=84 |language=bg}} Although unverified, it is possible that he was a genuine descendant given that the family is recorded to have survived in the neighbouring Kingdom of Hungary until at least the second half of the 16th century.{{Cite web |last=Епицентър |title=Кой е Фружин, чието име се появи на оръжието на атентатора от Нова Зеландия |url=https://epicenter.bg:443/article/Koy-e-Fruzhin--chieto-ime-se-poyavi-na-orazhieto-na-atentatora-ot-Nova-Zelandiya-/177717/11/61 |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Epicenter |language=bg}} It has also been suggested that "Ivan Shishman" was a name assumed by one of the other known leaders of the uprising, Theodore Balina, as self-proclaimed tsar.{{Cite web |last=история |first=Българска |date=2021-05-27 |title=Кой е мистериозният Шишман III? |url=https://bulgarianhistory.org/shishman-treti/ |access-date=2023-04-09 |website=Българска история |language=bg-BG}}