Eudocia Angelina

Eudokia Angelina
Died	c. 1211
Spouse	Stefan the First-Crowned Alexios V Doukas Leo Sgouros
House	Angelid dynasty
Father	Alexios III Angelos
Mother	Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina

Eudokia Angelina (or Eudocia Angelina) (Greek: Ευδοκία Αγγελίνα, Serbian: Evdokija Anđel; fl. 1186–died c. 1211, or later) was the consort of Stefan the First-Crowned of Serbia from 1196 to 1198. She later became the mistress of Alexios V Doukas, the future Emperor. She was a daughter of Alexios III Angelos and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamatera.

Eudokia first married Stefan, the second son of Stefan Nemanja, Grand Župan of Rascia. The marriage was arranged by her uncle, the emperor Isaac II Angelos, around 1186, while her father was in exile in Syria. In 1195, on her father-in-law's retirement to a monastery, Eudokia's husband became ruler of Rascia. In 1200 or 1201 he accused Eudokia of adultery and banished her from his realm. Eudokia fled on foot with only the clothes on her back, seeking refuge at the court of Vukan, ruler of Zeta, who befriended her and provided for. When she recovered, Eudokia went to Dyrrachium, from where a Byzantine ship returned her to her father in Constantinople. The repudation of Eudokia shows the decline of Byzantine power and prestige, as well as her husband's desire to align himself with the Papacy.

In Constantinople Eudokia became the mistress of the future Alexios V Doukas, with whom she (and her mother) fled the city into Thrace on April 12, 1204, as the Crusaders of the Fourth Crusade were storming the city. Reaching her deposed father at Mosynopolis, Eudocia was allowed to marry Alexios V, but he was enucleated on the orders of Alexios III shortly afterwards, then captured and sentenced to death by the Crusaders.

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