Uglješa Vlatković

Uglješa Vlatković ( Serbian - Cyrillic Угљеша Влатковић ; * around 1359, † after 1427) was a Serbian magnate , who under Tsar Stefan Uroš V. († 1371) carried the high dignity of an emperor .

Life

Uglješa was the youngest son of Sebastokrator Vlatko Paskačić and Vladislava ; his two older brothers were named Stefan and Uroš . His father ruled the Slavište County in the 1360s, roughly the area between Vranje in southern Serbia and Kriva Palanka in northern Macedonia, as a vassal of the powerful despots Vukašin and Uglješa Mrnjavčević . His family built the Psača monastery near Rankovce around 1354 , which was given to Athos .

Even as a child was Uglješa of Tsar Uroš V as Kaisar levied. After the death of his father, most of his lands fell to the brothers Jovan and Konstantin Dragaš . Probably after the Battle of Rovine in 1395, Uglješa, at that time already a vassal of Sultan Bayezid I , was able to regain the areas around Inogošt , Preševo and Vranje with Ottoman help. At the beginning of the 15th century he donated a church to the Hilandar monastery on Mount Athos .

It is unclear whether Uglješa took part in the battle of Ankara against the Timurids on the Ottoman-Serbian side in 1402 . After the heavy defeat, however, he took part in a joint expedition by Süleyman Çelebi and Đurađ Branković to prevent the despot Stefan Lazarević from returning to Serbia . At the beginning of the Battle of Gračanica on November 21, 1402 Uglješa ran over to Lazarević, to whom he had previously betrayed the Turkish attack plans and thus made victory possible.

In the following years Uglješa proved to be a loyal follower of Lazarević. On June 15, 1410, he and his troops took part in the Battle of Cosmidion at the gates of Constantinople . Byzantine sources mention him as a member of a Serbian delegation that accepted an invitation from the Byzantine emperor Manuel II Palaiologos . In 1412 troops of Musa Çelebi invaded Uglješa's domains, plundered his residence in Vranje and attacked Novo Brdo . After Lazarević's death on July 19, 1427, Uglješa took the writer Konstantin Kostenezki at his court.

It is not known when and under what circumstances Uglješa Vlatković died. His son Stefan , who died around 1400, is buried in the Ljubostinja monastery .

literature

• Божидар Ферјанчић: Севастократори и кесари у Српском царству. In: Зборник Филозофског факултета. Vol. 10-1, 1970, ISSN  0352-5546 , pp. 255-269 ( digitized version ), here: pp. 266-268.
• Georgije Ostrogorski : History of the Byzantine State (= Rutgers Byzantine series. Vol. 2). Rutgers University Press, New Brunswick NJ 1969, ISBN 0-8135-1198-4 , p. 551.
• Dragoslav Srejović et al .: Istorija srpskog naroda. Vol. 1: Od najstarijih vremena do maričke bitke (1371). Srpska književna zadruga, Belgrade 1994, ISBN 86-379-0476-9 , passim .