The Branivojević ( sr, Бранивојевићи) was most powerful Serbian noble family of their time, that held possessions in
Zahumlje
Zachlumia or Zachumlia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Zahumlje, Захумље, ), also Hum, was a medieval principality located in the modern-day regions of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia (today parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia ...
,
Travunija
Travunia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Travunija, Травунија; el, Τερβουνία, Tervounía; grc, Τερβουνία, Terbounía; la, Tribunia) was a South Slavic medieval principality that was part of Medieval Serbia (850–13 ...
, and Primorije, later known as Hum. The progenitor, Branivoje, served Serbian King
Stefan Milutin
Stefan Uroš II Milutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Урош II Милутин, Stefan Uroš II Milutin; 1253 – 29 October 1321), known as Stefan Milutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Милутин, Stefan Milutin), was the King of Serbia between 1282&nd ...
(ruled 1282–1321), and was given rule of
Ston and
Pelješac
Pelješac (; Chakavian: ; it, Sabbioncello) is a peninsula in southern Dalmatia in Croatia. The peninsula is part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and is the second largest peninsula in Croatia. From the isthmus that begins at Ston, to the top o ...
. The family had by 1325 emerged as the strongest family in Zahumlje, later Hum. In 1326, while serving Serbian King
Stefan Dečanski (ruled 1321–31), Branoje Branivojević, as the lord of Ston and Pelješac at the time, was given a great two-handed sword. Probably at their highest point they ruled from
Cetina river to the town of
Kotor.
Internal fights provided opportunity for the peripheral nobility, which would have bad consequences in the west, Hum; the Branivojević brothers entered politics in the relations with Venice, Croatian magnates and Bosnian ban.
Though nominal vassals of Serbia, the Branivojević family attacked Serbian interests and other local nobles of Hum, who in 1326 turned against Serbia and the Branivojevići. The Hum nobility approached
Stjepan Kotromanić II, the ban of Bosnia, who then annexed most of Hum. The
Draživojević of
Nevesinje, as vassals of the Bosnian Ban, became the leading family of Hum in 1330s.
Family tree
*Branivoje ( 1318), a local magnate that served Serbian King Stefan Milutin
**Branoje Branivojević (
fl.
''Floruit'' (; abbreviated fl. or occasionally flor.; from Latin for "they flourished") denotes a date or period during which a person was known to have been alive or active. In English, the unabbreviated word may also be used as a noun indicatin ...
1326), Lord of Ston and Pelješac
**Mihajlo Branivojević (died 1326)
**Branko Branivojević (died 1326)
**Brajko Branivojević (died 1326), married to
Vojislava Vojinović
Vojin of Gacko or Vojvoda Vojin ( sr, Војвода Војин; fl. 1322–1347) was a Serbian magnate (''velikaš'') and ''voivode'' (military commander equivalent to duke), who was holding the area around Gacko, which was part of ''Hum'', ...
See also
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War of Hum (1326–29)
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Bay of Kotor
People of the Kingdom of Serbia (medieval)