Lazarević dynasty

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.

Lazarević Лазаревић
Parent house	Nemanjić dynasty
Country	Serbia
Founded	1371
Founder	Lazar Hrebeljanović
Final ruler	Stefan Lazarević
Titles	Prince, Despot
Estate(s)	of Serbia
Dissolution	1427

Duke (or Tsar) Lazar Hrebeljanović

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.

• Lazar Hrebeljanović (1371–1389)
• Stefan Lazarević (1389–1427)

Family tree

Tsar Lazar and his family, 1860.

• Pribac
  • Draginja, who married Čelnik Musa, founder of Musić noble family
  • Lazar; Lazarevići
  • Ratoslava, who married Grand Župan Altoman Vojinović

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 and died March 1443,
• Olivera Despina (1372 – after 1444), married Ottoman Sultan Bayezid I in 1390

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.

External links

• Media related to Lazarević dynasty at Wikimedia Commons
• The Holy bloodline of Prince Lazar by Željko Fajfrić (in Serbian)