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Anastasia of Serbia

Field	Value
honorific-prefix	Saint
name	Anastasia
image	Свјетлопис мозаика Преп. Анастасије у храмау Преподобног Симеона митоточивог на Н.Бгд.jpg	caption=Mosaic of St. Anastasia in the	titles=Venerable Mother	feast_day=	venerated_in=Eastern Orthodox Church	major_shrine=Studenica Monastery	attributes=Monastic vestments, cross	misc = {{Infobox royalty	embed=yes
consort	yes
succession	Grand Princess consort of Serbia
reign
spouses	Stefan Nemanja
house	Nemanjić dynasty (by marriage)
death_date	22 June 1200
place of burial	Studenica Monastery
}}	honorific_suffix	of Serbia

| honorific-prefix = Saint | spouse-type =

Ana Vukanović (Ана Вукановић); – died 22 June 1200) was the princess consort of the Serbian Principality as the wife of Stefan Nemanja (). She was of noble descent from Vukanović's. Ana took monastic vows in 1196 and was tonsured as Anastasia, after Anastasia of Sirmium.

She is venerated as a saint in the Eastern Orthodox Church, especially in the Serbian Orthodox Church, where she is known as Saint Anastasia () with her feast day being commemorated on 21 June (on the Julian Calendar).

Theories of origin

СВЕТА АНАСТАСИЈА / МАТИ СРПСКА}}" (Saint Anastasia / Serbian Mother)

Her origins have never been concluded. The earliest source mentioning her origin was Domentijan ( – after 1264), who said of her: "a great princess, daughter of the Byzantine Emperor Romanos", only Romanos IV Diogenes ruled from 1068 to 1071, making this genealogy impossible.

Mavro Orbini, writing in 1601, mentioned her as a daughter of the Ban of Bosnia. He perhaps mixed her up with the wife of Prince Miroslav, who was the sister of Ban Kulin. However this is not supported by any sources.
Jovan Rajić thought Ana was the daughter of Ban Borić, although this is not supported by any sources. Vaso Glušac believed her to have been the sister of Ban Borić.
Simeon Bogdanović–Siniša claimed that Ana was the daughter of Ban Borić, however, he wrongly thought that Borić and Boris Kalamanos were the same person (when in fact, Boris died in 1154, and Borić was alive in 1163), thus Ana, based on this assumption, would have been the daughter of Boris.
Justin Popović mentioned her to have been the daughter of Manuel I Komnenos, who after the conflict with Uroš II of Serbia wed of his daughter to him in order to make peace.
Other theories include her being a Hungarian princess or "Frankish" (French) princess.

Marriage and descendants

Through her marriage with Stefan Nemanja, they had three sons and three daughters:

Stefan Nemanjić (–1228), Stefan Nemanja's successor.
Rastko Nemanjić (Saint Sava) (1169/1174–1235/1236), the founder and first archbishop of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Vukan Nemanjić, Grand Prince of Duklja () and Grand Prince of Serbia ()
Jefimija, who married Manuel Doukas, regent of Thessaloniki ()
A daughter who married Tihomir Asen, and gave birth to Bulgarian Tsar Constantine Tih Asen ()

References

Sources

References

Predrag Puzović 1998, ch. Lepa Ana, kći bosanskog bana
(2005). "Znamenite žene i vladarke srpske". Svet knjige.

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