Theodora
„wife of Stefan Uros III Decanski”- Title
- Princess
Biography
Daughter of tsar Smilets. In 1298 she was married to the Serbian heir Stefan Uros III Decanski, newly returned from Tatar hostageship — her father's most independent act of foreign policy. A late Serbian chronicle claims the marriage sealed a reconciliation after a war in which king Milutin defeated Smilets, but the account is late and uncorroborated. Bozhilov dates the marriage to c. 1309-1310; the 1298 dating of the History of Bulgaria 7th-14th c. is followed here.
Sources
- “То било заякчено с брака на дъщеря му Теодора със завърналия се през 1298 г. от татарско заложничество сръбски престолонаследник Стефан Урош III Дечански.”— History of Bulgaria from the 7th to the 14th century, p. 792