АНА ДАНДОЛО – ПРВА СРПСКА КРАЉИЦА?
ANNE DANDOLO – THE FIRST SERBIAN QUEEN?

Summary/Abstract: The information that Venetian aristocrat, granddaughter of the famous doge Enrico Dandolo, Anne, married Stephen Nemanjić, grand župan of Serbia, and was then crowned with him with royal crown, was brought by later Venetian chronicler Andrea Dandolo. Although this information was not recorded by other sources, not even by Thomas the Archdeacon, who informs us that Stephen Nemanjić received a royal crown in 1217, the analysis of sources of Western, Byzantine and domestic origin leads to the conclusion that Anne Dandolo was the first Serbian queen. Letter of Demetrius Chomatenus to Stephen Nemanjić clearly indicates that Anne was Stephen’s third wife. Marriage between Stephen and Anne was concluded in the first half of 1217, followed by the coronation. In the Serbian Sinodicon of Orthodoxy, which was composed at the end of the 13th century, the eternal memory was given to the first Serbian king and queen, Stephen and Anne. The famous fresco in the monastery of Sopoćani, Death of Queen Anne, clearly shows that Anne Dandolo survived her husband. Later Serbian rulers from the Nemanjić lineage gladly emphasized their kinship with the Venetian doges from the Dandolo family, which was based on the origin of the first Serbian queen.

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