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Angelina Branković

Venerable Mother Angelina, Despotess of Serbia
Sv. Angelina, freska u manastiru Krušedol.jpg
Fresco in Krušedol depicting Angelina
Saint, Venerable
Born 15th century
Berat (present day Albania)
Died Beginning of the 16th century
Krušedol monastery (present day Serbia)
Venerated in Serbian Orthodox Church
Major shrine Krušedol monastery
Feast July 30 or December 10

Angelina Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Ангелина Бранковић; Albanian: Angjelina Arianiti ca. 1440–1520), née Arianiti, was the despotess consort of Serbian Despot Stefan Branković (r. 1458—1459), and a daughter of Albanian nobleman Gjergj Arianiti. For her pious life she was proclaimed a saint and venerated as such by the Serbian Orthodox Church as Venerable Mother Angelina (Serbian: Преподобна мати Ангелина).

Angelina was the sixth daughter of Albanian nobleman Gjergj Arianiti (1383–1462). She married Serbian ruler Stefan Branković (r. 1458–59), son of the former Serbian Despot Đurađ Branković (r. 1427—1456). Her sister Donika married Skanderbeg.

The couple fled to Albania and then to Italy.

In 1485, at the death of her husband, Angelina went to the Kingdom of Hungary, where her son, George, had become a titular despot in exile of the Serbian Despotate. The territory of the Despotate had been under the Ottoman Empire since its collapse in 1459. Later Angelina retired in the Krušedol monastery, in the Fruška Gora mountain of Syrmia, where she died in the beginning of the 16th century.

Angelina and Stefan were married from 1461 until his death in 1476. They had children:


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