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Princess Milica, painting by Vladislav Titlbah, late
XIX century, The National Museum in
Kikinda
Princess Milica Hrebeljanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Милица Хребељановић, née Nemanjić, 1300s - November 11, 1405) also known as Tsaritsa Milica, was Regent of Serbia, wife of Serbian Prince Lazar and mother of despot Stefan Lazarević and of Princess Olivera Despina, the wife of Sultan Bayezid I. She was the daughter of Prince Vratko, who as a great-grandson of Vukan Nemanjić was part of a minor branch of the House of Nemanjić. She was the 4th cousin once removed of Emperor Dušan of Serbia. After the death of her husband, she took monastic vows at Ljubostinja monastery and became the nun Jevgenija (Јевгенија), and later the abbess Jefrosina (Јефросина). She was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church. Princess Milica was also a writer. She wrote several prayers and religious poems. Some historians[who?] think that her children Stefan Lazarević and Jelena Balšić received their literature education from her.
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- The geneaology and coats of arms of Serbian dynasties and feudals (Родословне таблице и грбови српских династија и властеле); editors Aleksa Ivić (1928), Dusan Spasić, Aleksandar Plavestra and Dusan Mrdjenović (1987); Bata, Belgrade, p. 20, 75. ISBN 86-7685-007-0 (1928), ISBN 86-7335-050-6 (1987). (Serbian)
