Teodora-Evdokija

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Teodora Nemanjić (

Theodora was born in 1330,^[citation needed] the youngest daughter and child of King Stefan Dečanski of Serbia by his second wife, Maria Palaiologina. Her maternal grandparents were John Komnenos Palaiologos, Governor of Thessaloniki and Irene Metochitissa.^{[citation needed]} Theodora had one full brother, Simeon Uroš and a sister, Jelena; she also had two half-siblings from her father's first marriage to Teodora of Bulgaria, Queen of Serbia, Stefan Uroš Dušan and Dušica. When Theodora was a year old, at the insistence of the nobility, Stefan Uroš Dušan had their father deposed and imprisoned in chains.^{[citation needed]} He consequently usurped the Serbian throne as Stefan Uroš IV Dušan. Five years later, Theodora's father was murdered by strangulation.^{[citation needed]} Her mother unsuccessfully attempted to obtain the crown for Simeon; defeated in her efforts, she retired to a convent and died in 1355.

Marriage

In 1347, at 17 years of age, Teodora married Despot Dejan. He was granted the title of