Jefimija

Jefimija (1349–1405), secular name Jelena, was the daughter of Caesar Vojihna of Drama and the wife of Despot Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević. She is honoured as the first female poet of medieval Serbia: her Lament for a Dead Son was engraved on the back of a diptych after her infant son died, and her Encomium of Prince Lazar is another landmark of old Serbian literature.

She was also a skilled needlewoman and engraver. She lived her later years as a nun and died in 1405.