2025Female Rulers of Serbia from the Nemanjic Dynasty - Set

Ana (Vukanović) Nemanjić (1125 – 1200) was a Serbian Grand Princess, the wife of Stefan Nemanja, the founder of the Serbian ruling dynasty of Nemanjić, and the mother of Stefan the First-Crowned, Vukan, and Saint Sava. There is conflicting information about her origins, but what history remembers is that Ana Nemanjić, together with her husband Stefan Nemanja, was the patron of numerous monasteries. Stefan Nemanja and Ana Nemanjić took monastic vows on the Annunciation in 1196, receiving the names Simeon and Anastasija. The monk Simeon retired to Studenica, and Anastasija to their endowment, the Monastery of the Holy Mother of God in Toplica, where she died in 1200. Her holy remains were later transferred to Studenica, the endowment and burial church of her husband, where they still rest today.