Historical stories about events from the rich Serbian Middle Ages mostly refer to the indisputably important and great rulers – \u017eupans, kings, emperors; political circumstances and misfortunes, wars. In this text, however, we will look back at four medieval women and rulers of Serbia and tell you the story of their origin, significance and influence they had on members of their families, but also on the circumstances in the country they married into.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Ana Nemanji\u0107 was the wife of \u017eupan Stefan Nemanja. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
There is not much data about Ana Nemanji\u0107 in historical sources, so her origin has not been established, nor has the place where she met Stefan Nemanja. There are several legends about her origin, but none has been confirmed with certainty. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
In Mavro Orbin’s book “The Kingdom of the Slavs” it is stated that she was the daughter of the Bosnian ban. Another source states this assumption, namely in Jovan Raji\u0107’s book “History”, it also says that she is the daughter of the Bosnian ban Stefan Bori\u0107. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
However, later historians were not free to confirm these assumptions. Ana gave birth to at least five children for Stefan Nemanja, including Stefan the First-Crowned, Vukan and Saint Sava. She became a nun in 1196, and refused the name Anastasija. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
She spent the last years of her life in the monastery of the Holy Mother of God in Toplica where she died, but her relics were later transferred to Studenica, the endowment and burial church of her husband, where they still rest today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n