Maria Palaiologina ( Serbian : Мари?а Палеолог / Marija Paleolog ) was the Queen consort of Stefan De?anski (1324?1331). Maria was the daughter of panhypersebastos John Palaiologos , and great-niece of Emperor Andronikos II Palaiologos (r. 1282?1328).

Her father was the governor of Thessaloniki in the early 1320s. Stefan Uro? III had earlier been married to Teodora of Bulgaria , but the marriage ended in with Theodora's death on 20 December 1322. Uro? III then married Maria in 1324. The royal couple's marriage lasted until her husband's death. Stefan Uro? III was defeated by his son Stephen Uro? IV Du?an (from the marriage with Teodora) in 1331, and shortly thereafter died in Zve?an (1332).

The relation between the father and son had been bad, the usurpation was incited by the "younger" nobility. Maria tried to assert the throne for her son Simeon Uro? , through Byzantine aid, but this was unsuccessful. Du?an the Mighty did not harm their family, Maria took monastic vows as Marta , and in 1348, Simeon became a governor of the southern provinces of the Serbian Empire . Maria died on April 7, 1355, and was buried in Skopje . A brief account of her turbulent life inscribed on her gravestone is attributed to her. ^[1]

Family [ edit ]

Maria had son and two daughters by her marriage with Stefan Uro? III:

• Simeon Uro? , rival Emperor of Serbs and Greeks in the southern half of the Serbian Empire (r. 1359 - 1370)
• Jelena Nemanji? ?ubi?
• Teodora-Evdokija

Ancestry [ edit ]

See also [ edit ]

• Nemanji? dynasty

References [ edit ]

Sources [ edit ]

• Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest . University of Michigan Press. ISBN   978-0-472-08260-5 .
• Живкови?, Во?ислав. " Мари?а Палеолог, супруга Стефана Дечанског ". Византи?ско-словенска Чтени?а 4, Универзитет у Нишу, Ниш (2021) 111-125.