Branko Mladenović

Branko's Belt in the British Museum , London

Branko Mladenović ( Serbian - Cyrillic Бранко Младеновић , Middle Greek Πράνκος Μλαδένης ; † January or February 1365 ) was a Serbian magnate and provincial governor under the Tsars Stefan Uroš IV. Dušan and Stefan Uroš V.

Life

Branko was a son of the region Drenica originating Gespans and Voivod Mladen († before 1346), who as governor of Trebinje and Kotor the raszischen King Stefan Uros III. Dečanski had served. After his son and successor Stefan Uroš IV. Dušan was crowned emperor on April 16, 1346 in Skopje , he gave Branko the high dignity of sebastokrator , which in the Serbian Empire was only close relatives of the ruling Nemanjić dynasty . In 1355 at the latest he was appointed governor of the Serbs in the Ohrid Oblast in western Macedonia . His sister Ratislava married the grand duke Altoman Vojinović .

Branko Mladenović is the progenitor of the prominent Serbian aristocratic family Branković ; his sons were Nikola Radonja , Grgur Golubić and Vuk Branković . After Branko's death, the usurper Vukašin Mrnjavčević drove the family out of Ohrid. Starting from her homeland in Drenica, Vuk Branković briefly became the most powerful Serbian prince after the collapse of the Nemanjid Empire and the battle on the Blackbird Field (1389) .

Branko's daughter Theodora was the wife of Georg Thopia , the son of the Albanian Prince Karl Thopia .

swell

• Laonikos Chalkokondyles 1, 26 and 49 (ed.Eugen Darkó, 1922)

literature

• Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори и кесари у Српском царству . In: З борник Филозофског факултета 10-1, 1970, ISSN  0352-5546 , pp. 255-269 ( digitized version ), here: pp. 260 f., 263.
• John Van Antwerp Fine: The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor MI 1994, ISBN 0-472-08260-4 , pp. 310, 357, 363, 377, 380, 383.
• Constantin Jireček : History of the Serbs. Vol. 1: Bis 1371. Perthes, Gotha 1911 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1967), pp. 388, 415-416, 426, 436.
• Раде Михаљчић: Крај Српског царства. Београдски издавачко-графички завод, Београд 1975, p. 217.
• Гојко Суботић, Ставрос Кисас: Надгробни натпис сестре деспота Јована Угљеше на Меникејској Гори . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института 16, 1975, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 161-181, here: p. 165 and passim .
• Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Ewald Kislinger: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 8. Fascicle: Μιχαὴλ - Ξυστούρης (= Publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/8). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1986, ISBN 3-7001-0775-7 , p. 19 No. 19195.

Web links

• Branko Mladenović on Medieval Lands