Nikola Radonja

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Nikola Radonja (full name Nikola Radonja Brankovic , Serbian - Cyrillic Никола Радоња Бранковић ; medium Greek Νικόλαος Ραδόχνας ; as a monk Gerasim or Romanos , † 3. December 1399 in Agiou Pavlou monastery on Mount Athos ) was a Serbian tycoon under the Tsar Stefan Uroš IV. Dušan and Stefan Uroš V.

Life

Nikola Radonja was the eldest son of the Sebastokrator Branko Mladenović , governor of Stefan Dušans in the Ohrid Oblast since 1346 . He was thus a grandson 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. His brothers were Grgur Golubić and Vuk Branković ; his sister Teodora was the wife of Georg Thopia , son of the Albanian prince Karl Thopia . Radonja was married to Jelena , a sister of Jovan Uglješa .

After Stefan Dušan was crowned emperor in Skopje in 1346 , he transferred a domain to Radonja in the Serres region , where he lived with his family. After the early death of his wife and two daughters, Radonja withdrew from worldly life to the Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos in the winter of 1364/65, while his father was still alive , and took the monk's name Gerasim . Around 1380 he acquired the destroyed Agiou Pavlou monastery together with Arsenije Bagaš from the Xeropotamou monastery and had it rebuilt. Between 1379 and 1389 Radonja was a priest in the Hilandar monastery; as "Gerasim, brother of Vuk Branković" he is mentioned in a 1389 document by Lazar Hrebeljanović . In 1397 he transferred Vuks' remains to Agiou Pavlou. Radonja died there on December 3, 1399.

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literature

  • Stéphane Binon: Les origines légendaires et l'histoire de Xéropotamou et de Saint-Paul de l'Athos. Étude diplomatique et critique (= Bibliothèque du Muséon. Vol. 13). Université de Louvain, Institute Orientaliste, Louvain 1942, p. 275.
  • Jean Darrouzès (ed.): Les Regestes des Actes du patriarcat de Constantinople. Vol. 1: Les Actes des patriarches. Fasc. 6: Les Regestes de 1377 à 1410. Institut français d'études byzantines, Paris 1979, ISBN 2-901049-26-5 , No. 3264, 3266.
  • Colin Davey: The Gospels of Jakov of Serres, the Family Branković and the Monastery of Saint Paul on Mount Athos. In: Robin Cormack, Elizabeth Jeffreys: Through the looking glass: Byzantium through British eyes. Papers from the 29th Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies. ( Society for the Promotion of Byzantine Studies [Great Britain] ). Ashgate, Farnham 1995, ISBN 978-0-86078-667-2 , pp. 135-144.
  • Franz Dölger (Ed.): From the treasure chambers of the Holy Mountain. 115 documents and 50 document seals from 10 centuries. Text tape / table tape. Münchner Verlag, Munich 1948, p. 255.
  • Срђан Пириватрић: Прилог хронологији почетка Немањине власти . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 29-30, 1991, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 125-136.
  • Миодраг Пурковић: Кнез и деспот Стефан Лазаревић. Свети архијерејски синод Српске православне цркве, Београд 1978.
  • Alexios G. Savvides, Benjamin Hendrickx (Eds.): Encyclopaedic Prosopographical Lexicon of Byzantine History and Civilization . Vol. 3: Faber Felix - Juwayni, Al- . Brepols Publishers, Turnhout 2012, ISBN 978-2-503-53243-1 , p. 104.
  • Гојко Суботић, Ставрос Кисас: Надгробни натпис сестре деспота Јована Угљеше на Меникејској Гори . In: Зборник радова Византолошког института . Vol. 16, 1975, ISSN  0584-9888 , pp. 161-181, here: p. 164.
  • Erich Trapp , Hans-Veit Beyer, Ioannes G. Leontiades, Sokrates Kaplaneres: Prosopographisches Lexikon der Palaiologenzeit . 10. Fascicle: Πετούσσα - Σιχούη (= publications of the Commission for Byzantine Studies . Vol. 1/10). Austrian Academy of Sciences, Vienna 1990, ISBN 3-7001-1775-2 , p. 95 No. 24022.

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Remarks

  1. ↑ See Davey, Gospels , p. 138.
  2. ↑ See Пурковић, Кнез, p. 45.
personal data
SURNAME Nikola Radonja
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nikola Radonja Branković (full name); Никола Радоња Бранковић (Serbian); Νικόλαος ῾Ραδόχνας (Middle Greek); Gerasim (religious name); Romanos (religious name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Serbian magnate, after 1364 Orthodox monk
DATE OF BIRTH before 1346
DATE OF DEATH December 3, 1399
Place of death Agiou Pavlou Monastery , Athos