Kesar Novak
Novak the Serb (Srbin Novak) was a 14th-century Serbian nobleman that held the region of Lake Prespa during the Serbian Empire of Uroš the Weak (r. 1355-1371). He held the title of Caesar, and is hence also known as Kesar Novak.[1]
Kesar Novak the Serb | |
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| caesar of [Lake Prespa] | |
 Fresco | |
| Wife | Kali |
| Issue | Amiral Marija |
He had a Greek wife, Kali, with whom he had a daughter Marija (Maria) and a son Amiral (Amiralis).[2]
Among his endowments are the cave-church of Bogorodica (Holy Virgin Eleusa[3]) on the island of Maligrad where frescoes and Greek inscriptions of his family exist dating to 1369.[4]
References
- Macedonia, by T R Georgevitch, page p. 47
- Tania Velmans, page 178
- Scripta & e-scripta, Vol 5, page 196
- Jirecek, Geschichte , I, 1-33
Sources
- Stari srpski spomenici u Južnoj Srbiji, Dr Vlad. R. Petković, 1924
- The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (1331-1355) and his successors, by George Christos Soulis, page 214-5
- Гоце Ангеличин - Жура
- Ivan M. Đorđević, Zidno slikarstvo srpske vlastele u doba Nemanjića (Wall-Paintings of the Serbian Nobility of the Nemanide Era) OCLC 34957313, sl. 84 i 85
- Tania Velmans, La Peinture murale byzantine à la fin du Moyen âge, Volume 1
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