Jovan Dragaš

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Jovan Dragaš (?) On a fresco in the Beluća monastery near Trstenik

Jovan Dragaš (also Jovan Dejanović ; Serbian - Cyrillic Јован Драгаш ; Middle Greek Ἰωάννης Δραγάσης ; * 1343 ; † 1378 ) was a Serbian magnate in Macedonia , who from 1371 carried the high dignity of a despot .

Life

Jovan Dragaš was the eldest son of the Serbian Sebastokrator Dejan and the Bulgarian Boljar daughter Teodora Nemanjić , a sister of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Uroš IV. Dušan . His maternal grandparents were the Serbian King Stefan Dečanski and Teodora , daughter of the Bulgarian Tsar Smilez . The family controlled the region of Kumanovo east of the Skopska Crna Gora and the upper Struma valley with Welbaschd .

After her father's death around 1365, the still youthful brothers Jovan and came Constantine Dragaš in the dependence of the powerful Serb princes Vukašin and Uglješa Mrnjavčević that in Macedonia de facto for Tsar Stefan Uroš V. exercised dominion. The Mrnjavčevići put the Lord of Slavište , Vlatko Paskačić , as administrator of the region between Vardar and Struma. Jovan and Konstantin were awarded most of the former domains of the despot Jovan Oliver , although the latter had left six sons when he died.

As a result of the defeat of the Mrnjavčevići against the Turks in the Battle of Maritsa (1371) were Jovan and Constantine Dragaš 1373 vassals of the Ottoman Sultan Murad I. However, they were holding themselves as quasi-autonomous rulers in northeast Macedonia and its domains even southward to Štip , Strumica and Melnik expand. The Dragaš brothers, who also had their own coins struck, received their main income from the mines in Kratovo and Zletovo and from the grain trade . They maintained close relationships with their Christian neighbors and maintained the monasteries of Athos , including Hilandar , Pantaleimon and Vatopedi .

Jovan Dragaš died in 1378. His brother Constantine became the father-in-law of the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos in 1392 and remained lord of north-eastern Macedonia as an Ottoman vassal until his death in 1395.

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literature

  • Божидар Ферјанчић: Деспоти у Византији и Јужнословенским земљама (= Посебна издања . Vol. 336; Византолошки институт Vol. 8.). Српска академија наука и уметности, Београд 1960, pp. 173–174, 178–180, 208.
  • 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 .
  • Constantin Jireček : History of the Serbs. Perthes, Gotha 1911-1918 (reprinted by Adolf M. Hakkert, Amsterdam 1967), Vol. 1, p. 434, Vol. 2/1, p. 106.
  • Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 2: Baanes-Eznik of Kolb . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2008, ISBN 978-2-503-52377-4 , pp. 376-377.
  • George Christos Soulis: The Serbs and Byzantium during the Reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (1331-1355) and his Successors. Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington DC 1984, ISBN 0-88402-137-8 , pp. 101-102.
  • Erich Trapp , Rainer Walther, Hans-Veit Beyer: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 3rd fascicle: Δ ... - Ἡσύχιος (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/3). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1978, ISBN 3-7001-0276-3 , p. 72 No. 5745.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See PLP 3, p. 72.
  2. ↑ See EPLBHC 2, p. 376 f.
  3. ↑ See Fine, Late Medieval Balkans , p. 358.
  4. ↑ See EPLBHC 2, p. 377.
personal data
SURNAME Jovan Dragaš
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jovan Dejanović; Јован Драгаш (SrS); Ἰωάννης Δραγάσης (Middle Greek)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian magnate in Macedonia
DATE OF BIRTH 1343
DATE OF DEATH 1378