Teodora Nemanjić was the despotess of Kumanovo as the wife of Despot Dejan.
Background
She was the daughter of King Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia and her eldest half-brother was Serbian emperor, Stephen Uroš IV Dušan. Theodora was born in 1330, the youngest daughter and child of King Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia by his second wife, Maria Palaiologina.
Career
She later became a nun adopting the name Evdokija (Евдокија, gr Eudokia), hence she is known in historiography as Teodora-Evdokija (Теодора-Евдокија). Her maternal grandparents were John Komnenos Palaiologos, Governor of Thessaloniki and Irene Metochitissa. He consequently usurped the Serbian throne as Stephen Uroš IV Dušan.
Five years later, Theodora"s father was murdered by strangulation.
Her mother unsuccessfully attempted to obtain the crown for Simeon. Defeated in her efforts, she retired to a convent and died in 1355.
On an unrecorded date, Theodora followed in her mother"s footsteps and also entered a religious life. Her mother had taken the name Marta, and Theodora, upon becoming a nun, adopted the name Eudokia.
In a charter dated 1379, it was recorded that Eudocia imperatrix et filius Constantinus donated property to the Chilandar Monastery.
Number explanation was given for the charter having described her erroneously as an empress.