Olivera Despina

Maria Olivera Despina
Hatun
Bayezid I is encaged, while his captive wife (Olivera Despina) is treated as a slave (1860) by Peter Johann Nepomuk Geiger
Bornc. 1372
Kruševac, Moravian Serbia
Diedc. 1444 (aged 71–72)
Serbian Despotate
Spouse
(m. 1390; death 1403)
IssueÖruz Hatun
Paşa Melek Hatun
Names
Maria Olivera Lazarević
Despina Hatun
HouseLazarević birth
Ottoman marriage
FatherLazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia
MotherMilica Nemanjić

Maria Olivera Lazarević (Serbian Cyrillic: Деспина Оливера Лазаревић; 1372 – after 1444), also known as Despina Hatun, was a Serbian princess and consort of the Ottoman sultan Bayezid I, whom she married just after the Battle of Kosovo in 1389 as a pledge of peace between the Lazarević and Ottoman dynasties. She was the youngest daughter of Lazar of Serbia and Princess Milica.

The story of Olivera's and Bayezid's captivity by Timur after the Battle of Ankara (1402) has been popularly narrated, most often in plays and operas. The most significant one is Tamburlaine (1587–1588) by Christopher Marlowe, in which she is named “Zabina”.