Vukoslavić noble family

The Vukoslavić family (Serbian: Вукославић) was a Serbian noble family that held a region in Pomoravlje during the Serbian Empire (1331–1379) and its fall (1379–1459).

Vukoslavić
Country Serbia
(Serbian Kingdom, Empire and Despotate)
Founded14th-century
TitlesDuke (župan)
Lord (kyr)
Estate(s)Herzegovina (-1331)
Paraćin region
Dissolution1459
(Fall of Serbian Despotate)

History

The history starts with župan (Duke) Vukoslav, who held Trebinje, Gacko and Rudine in the western lands of King Stefan Dečanski, but loses them in 1328–1331.[1] He was given an oblast that connected Pomoravlje (Ćuprija and Paraćin) with the lower part of the Timok Valley over Čestobrodice, by Emperor Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331-1355).[2]

Vukoslav had two sons, Crep and Držman. Crep was a vassal to Prince Lazar of Serbia, and held the frontier region around Petrus Fortress, in Paraćin.[2] Crep, together with his neighbour noble Vitomir, defeated an Ottoman army at the Battle of Dubravnica on the Dubravnica River near Paraćin on the 25th of December, 1380/1381.[2][3]

Crep founded Sisojevac monastery, he also contributed to the Great Lavra (Athos).

The family was involved in a brief conflict[4] about a church and its villages (Lešje[2]) that Vukoslav had given to Chilandar in 1360. The two brothers had asked for the return of these, and Lazar had supported them (mentioned in the chrysobulls of Lazar[5][6]). It was settled in 1411, when Despot Stefan Lazarević gave Hilandar other donations, returning Vukoslavs' donations to Venedikt, the son of Crep.

Members
  • Vukoslav, Duke of towns in Herzegovina, later Pomoravlje
    • Crep, voivode
      • Venedikt Crepović, Lord and monk (kyr)
        • Anisija, Orthodox nun, died 1426/1427
    • Držman (Dionisije, monastic name)

References
  1. Petruška vlastela i kosovskometohijski duhovni prostor, p. 4
  2. Balcanoslavica, p. 33
  3. Thomas Allan Emmert, The battle of Kosovo: a reconsideration of its significance in the decline of medieval Serbia, Stanford University, 1973. p. 94. Google Books
  4. Predrag Matejić, Hannah Thomas, Manuscripts on microform of the Hilandar Research Library, The Ohio State University, Hilandar Research Library, Resource Center for Medieval Slavic Studies, the Ohio State University, in cooperation with the "Ivan Dujchev" Research Centre for Slavo-Byzantine Studies, Sofia, Bulgaria, 1992. p 264. Google Books
  5. George Christos Soulis, The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (1331-1355) and his successors, Dumbarton Oaks Library and Collection, 1984. ISBN 978-0-88402-137-7. Google Books
  6. Društvo istoričara SR Srbije, Istorijski Glasnik, 1975, Google Books

Sources

Primary:

  • Jašović Predrag, Petković Đorđe, Petruška vlastela i kosovskometohijski duhovni prostor, 2007.

Other:

  • Balcanoslavica, Volumes 6-9, 1978. Google Books
  • Marko Šuica, „Nemirno doba srpskog srednjeg veka“, Beograd, 2000. ISBN 86-355-0452-6
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