Angelina of Serbia (c. 1440 – 1520) was a noblewoman of the late medieval Balkans, the wife of the Serbian ruler Stephen Brankovic and the mother of a household later venerated together as Serbian saints. Born into the Albanian noble house of Arianiti, she married Stephen in 1460, shared his years of exile after the Ottoman advance, and in widowhood took up the monastic life. She is commemorated on July 1 and July 30, and on December 10 together with her husband Stephen and her son John.
According to the synaxarion her father was a prince of Albania, and she was raised in Christian piety; genealogical sources name him as George Arianiti and record that her elder sister Andronika was the wife of Skanderbeg. Her husband Stephen, son of the former despot Djuradj Brankovic, had been blinded by Ottoman order and held only a titular claim to the Serbian despotate. When Ottoman power overran their lands, the family was forced into flight, leaving Albania for northern Italy, where Stephen died in 1476.
After her husband's death Angelina secured a refuge for her family in the lands north of the Danube. By the synaxarion's account the ruler of Hungary granted them the town of Kupinovo in Sirmium, and in 1486 Angelina returned with her sons to bury Stephen's body. Her two sons were both glorified as saints: George renounced his station, became the monk Maximus, and rose to be a metropolitan, while John, titular despot of Serbia, died childless, with miracles reported at his relics.
In her later years Angelina entered a women's monastery, and together with her son the Metropolitan Maximus she founded the monastery of Krusedol in the Fruska Gora mountains of Syrmia, which became the burial place and shrine of the Brankovic family. She died at Krusedol in 1520 and was buried in the same tomb as her sons, making the monastery a major center of Serbian veneration.
