diff --git a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
index 4570fac454..8da0bd32d0 100644
--- a/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
+++ b/meta/conf/distro/include/maintainers.inc
@@ -585,6 +585,7 @@ RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-iniparse = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksan
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-libarchive-c = "Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-magic = "Joshua Watt <JPEWhacker@gmail.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-mako = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
+RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-markupsafe = "Richard Purdie <richard.purdie@linuxfoundation.org>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-nose = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-numpy = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
 RECIPE_MAINTAINER_pn-python3-pbr = "Oleksandr Kravchuk <open.source@oleksandr-kravchuk.com>"
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-markupsafe/run-ptest b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-markupsafe/run-ptest
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..5cec711696
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-markupsafe/run-ptest
@@ -0,0 +1,3 @@
+#!/bin/sh
+
+pytest
diff --git a/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-markupsafe_1.1.1.bb b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-markupsafe_1.1.1.bb
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..403a98a43f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/meta/recipes-devtools/python/python3-markupsafe_1.1.1.bb
@@ -0,0 +1,28 @@
+DESCRIPTION = "Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python"
+HOMEPAGE = "http://github.com/mitsuhiko/markupsafe"
+LICENSE = "BSD-3-Clause"
+LIC_FILES_CHKSUM = "file://LICENSE.rst;md5=ffeffa59c90c9c4a033c7574f8f3fb75"
+
+SRC_URI[md5sum] = "43fd756864fe42063068e092e220c57b"
+SRC_URI[sha256sum] = "29872e92839765e546828bb7754a68c418d927cd064fd4708fab9fe9c8bb116b"
+
+PYPI_PACKAGE = "MarkupSafe"
+inherit pypi setuptools3
+# ptest disabled in OE-Core for now due to missing dependencies
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN} += "${PYTHON_PN}-stringold"
+
+BBCLASSEXTEND = "native nativesdk"
+
+SRC_URI += " \
+	file://run-ptest \
+"
+
+RDEPENDS_${PN}-ptest += " \
+	${PYTHON_PN}-pytest \
+"
+
+do_install_ptest() {
+	install -d ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests
+	cp -f ${S}/tests/* ${D}${PTEST_PATH}/tests/
+}