Ana-Neda (
Bulgarian
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and sr-cyr, Ана-Неда; fl. 1323–1324) was the
Empress consort of Bulgaria First Bulgarian Empire
Second Bulgarian Empire
Third Bulgarian State
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briefly in 1323–1324 as the spouse of "Despot of
Vidin
Vidin ( bg, Видин, ; Old Romanian: Diiu) is a port city on the southern bank of the Danube in north-western Bulgaria. It is close to the borders with Romania and Serbia, and is also the administrative centre of Vidin Province, as well as o ...
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Michael Shishman
Michael Asen III ( bg, Михаил Асен III, ''Mihail Asen III'', commonly called Michael Shishman (Михаил Шишман, ''Mihail Šišman'')), ruled as tsar of Bulgaria from 1323 to 1330. The exact year of his birth is unknown but it w ...
who was elected as Emperor of Bulgaria in 1323. She was the daughter of
Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin and Princess
Elizabeth Arpad, daughter of King Stephen V of Hungary and
Elizabeth the Kumana daughter of
Köten
Köten (russian: Котян, hu, Kötöny, ar, Kutan, later Jonas; 1205–1241) was a Cumania, Cuman–Kipchak chieftain (''khan'') and military commander active in the mid-13th century. He forged an important alliance with the Kievan Rus' aga ...
. From the marriage with Michael, they had three sons, one of whom was
Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
Ivan Stefan ( bg, Иван Стефан; in English also ''John Stephen'') (c. 1300/1301–1373 (?)) ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Ser ...
, later briefly the Emperor of Bulgaria (1330–1331).
Life
She was the daughter of
Serbian King Stefan Uroš II Milutin and Princess
Ana Terter
Ana Terter ( Bulgarian and sr-cyr, Ана Тертер; died after 1304) was a Bulgarian princess and Queen consort of Serbia (1284–1299). She was the fourth wife of King Stefan Uroš II Milutin of Serbia.
Her marriage to Stefan Milutin is d ...
, daughter of
George I of Bulgaria
George Terter I ( bg, Георги Тертер I), of the Terter dynasty ruled as tsar of Bulgaria 1280–1292. He was born in Cherven. The date of his birth is unknown, and he died in 1308/1309.
Early life
The antecedents of George Terter I ar ...
. Some believe that her mother was
Elizabeth of Hungary
Elizabeth of Hungary (german: Heilige Elisabeth von Thüringen, hu, Árpád-házi Szent Erzsébet, sk, Svätá Alžbeta Uhorská; 7 July 1207 – 17 November 1231), also known as Saint Elizabeth of Thuringia, or Saint Elisabeth of Thuringia, ...
.
From the marriage with Michael they had three sons:
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Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
Ivan Stefan ( bg, Иван Стефан; in English also ''John Stephen'') (c. 1300/1301–1373 (?)) ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Ser ...
, emperor of Bulgaria in 1330-1331
*Michael, ''
despotes
Despot or ''despotes'' ( grc-gre, δεσπότης, despótēs, lord, master) was a senior Byzantine Empire, Byzantine Byzantine aristocracy and bureaucracy, court title that was bestowed on the sons or sons-in-law of reigning emperors, and initi ...
'' in Vidin for a brief period
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Shishman, pretender to the Bulgarian throne
In 1324, Michael Shishman divorced Anna Neda in order to marry Theodora of Byzantium. Anna Neda and her children were sent out of Turnovo into the countryside. In 1330, Michael Shishman died and was succeeded by his firstborn son
Ivan Stephen of Bulgaria
Ivan Stefan ( bg, Иван Стефан; in English also ''John Stephen'') (c. 1300/1301–1373 (?)) ruled as emperor (tsar) of Bulgaria for eight months from 1330 to 1331. He was the eldest son of emperor Michael III Shishman and Anna Neda of Ser ...
.
She took monastic vows and received the name Jelena. She was buried in the
Dečani monastery. She was consecrated in the
Serbian Orthodox Church
The Serbian Orthodox Church ( sr-Cyrl, Српска православна црква, Srpska pravoslavna crkva) is one of the autocephalous (ecclesiastically independent) Eastern Orthodox Christian denomination, Christian churches.
The majori ...
as
Venerable
The Venerable (''venerabilis'' in Latin) is a style, a title, or an epithet which is used in some Western Christian churches, or it is a translation of similar terms for clerics in Eastern Orthodoxy and monastics in Buddhism.
Christianity
Cathol ...
(''prepodobna'') "St. Jelena of Dečani" (Света Јелена Дечанска), her feast day is on June 3 (May 21, Julian calendar).
Annotations
Name: Recent Bulgarian historians call her Ana-Neda (with a dash). It is likely that she was born Neda, and upon the marriage to Michael, becoming a queen, she received the titular name Ana.
[Mandić 1981: "Именима Ана—Неда зову је и новији бугарски историчари.52 Заиста је Милутиновој кћери могло бити крштено име Неда, а кад се удала за Михаила, тамо је, као владарка, добила титуларно име Ана."] She has also been called Dominika (Доминика), because Neda comes from "недеља" (nedelja) in Serbian, which means "Sunday", i.e. "Dius Domini").
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14th-century Serbian royalty
Bulgarian consorts
Medieval Serbian princesses
Serbian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church
People from Vidin
Tsardom of Vidin
Nemanjić dynasty
Shishman dynasty
Burials at Visoki Dečani
14th-century Bulgarian women
Eastern Orthodox royal saints
14th-century Serbian women