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Stefan Lazarevic von Servien

Male Abt 1377 - 1427  (50 years)    Has 3 ancestors but no descendants in this family tree.

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  • Name Stefan Lazarevic von Servien 
    Birth Abt 1377 
    Gender Male 
    Death 19 Jul 1427 
    Siblings 6 Siblings 
    Person ID I669524  Geneagraphie
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2009 

    Father Stefan Lazar Hrebeljanovic von Servien,   b. 1329, Prilepac Find all individuals with events at this locationd. 28 Jun 1389 (Age 60 years) 
    Mother Milica   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Family ID F294626  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

    Family Helena Gattilusio   d. Yes, date unknown 
    Marriage 1405 
    Family ID F294694  Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
    Last Modified 15 Nov 2009 

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    • prince (1389-1402) and despot (1402-1427

      became Prince in 1389, and participated as an Ottoman vassal in the Battle of Karanovasa in 1394, the Battle of Rovine in 1395, the Battle of Nicopolis in 1396, and in the Battle of Ankara in 1402. He became the Despot of Serbia in 1402 after the Ottoman state temporarily collapsed following Timur 's invasion of Anatolia with the Battle of Ankara, and in 1403 proclaimed Belgrade his capital. He built a fortress with a citadel which was destroyed during the Great Turkish War in 1690; only the Despot Stefan Tower remains today. Stefan defeated and killed his brother-in-law Bayezid I 's son Musa during the Battle of Despotovac in 1406. After the battle, Serbia had peace with the Ottomans for a long time.
      Stefan II became an ally of the Kingdom of Hungary and a knight of a special order, so when the Hungarian king Sigismund renewed the Order of the Dragon (Societas draconistrarum) in 1408, Despot Stefan Lazarevi was the first on the list of members. In 1404, Sigismund gave Lazarevi land in the present-day Vojvodina (and Pannonian part of present-day Belgrade ), including Zemun (today part of Belgrade), Slankamen , Kupinik , Mitrovica , Becej , and Veliki Beckerek . In 1417, Apatin is also mentioned among his possessions.

      Under his rule, he issued a Code of Mines in 1412 in Novo Brdo , the economic center of Serbia . In his legacy, Resava-Manasija monastery ( Pomoravlje District ), he organized the Resava School , a center for correcting, translating, and transcribing books.
      Stefan Lazarevi died suddenly in 1427, leaving the throne to his nephew Brankovic . His deeds eventually elevated him into sainthood, and the Serbian Orthodox Church honors him on August 1 . Despot Stefan is buried in the monastery Koporin which he had built in 1402., as he did the bigger and more famous Manasija monastery in 1407.. In fact, Manasija was intended as his own burial place, but due to a sudden nature of his death in perilous times it was his brother Vuk that is buried there.
      Apart from the biographical notes in charters and especially in the Code on The Mine Novo Brdo (1412), Stefan Lazarevi wrote three original literary works: The Grave Sobbing for prince Lazar (1389); The Inscription on the Kosovo Marble Column (1404); and A Homage to Love (1409), a poetic epistle to his brother Vuk.



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