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Duke (or Tsar)
Lazar Hrebeljanović
The House of Lazarević (
Serbian Cyrillic : Лазаревић ,
pl. Lazarevići / Лазаревићи, pronounced
[lazǎːrɛv̞itɕ] ) was a
Serbian medieval
royal family , which ruled
Moravian Serbia and the
Serbian Despotate .
The dynasty began with
Lazar Hrebeljanović , son of
Pribac Hrebeljanović -a noble at the court of
Dušan the Mighty . Lazar married
Milica , supposedly a member of the reigning
Nemanjić dynasty , and was later given the title "Knez" by
Serbian Emperor
Uroš the Weak . He gained lands in Central Serbia and through his ties with the Nemanjićs he became the regent of
Moravian Serbia . In the
Battle of Kosovo against the
Ottoman Empire , Lazar was killed and Serbia became a vassal state, leading to the end of Serbian sovereignty.
Monarchs
Rulers of
Moravian Serbia from 1371 to 1427.
Family tree
Tsar Lazar and his family , 1860.
Lazarević
Lazar married
Princess Milica Nemanjic in around 1353 and had at least seven children:
Mara, married
Vuk Branković , founder of
Branković dynasty in around 1371 and died April 12, 1426,
Stefan Lazarević (c. 1377 – July 19, 1427), Prince (1389–1402) and
Despot (1402–1427), married Helene
Gattilusio , daughter of
Francesco II of Lesbos in 1405, granddaughter of Princess Maria
Palaiologina , sister of the
Byzantine emperor
John V Palaiologos .
Vuk , Prince, executed on July 6, 1410
Dragana , married Emperor
Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria in around 1386, died before July 1395
Teodora, married
Nicholas II Garay ,
Palatine of Hungary and member of powerful
Garay family
Jelena (Jela), married
Đurađ II Stracimirović ,
Lord of Zeta and member of
Balšić noble family , then
Sandalj Hranić ,
Grand Duke of Bosnia and member of
Kosača noble family
[1] and died March 1443,
Olivera Despina (1372 – after 1444), married
Ottoman Sultan
Bayezid I in 1390
References
^ Mrđenović (1987), p.108
Sources
Ćirković, Sima (2004).
The Serbs . Malden: Blackwell Publishing.
Fine, John Van Antwerp Jr. (1994) [1987].
The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest . Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press.
Sedlar, Jean W. (1994).
East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000-1500 . Seattle: University of Washington Press.
Veselinović, Andrija & Ljušić, Radoš (2001). Српске династије, Platoneum.
Fajfrić, Željko. Sveta loza kneza Lazara .
Marjanović-Dušanić, Smilja. "Dinastija i svetost u doba porodice Lazarević: stari uzori i novi modeli." Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta 43 (2006): 77-97.
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