Jovan Teodorović Obrenović (c. 1787 – 22 January 1850), also known as Gospodar Jovan, was a

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n divisional general, commander of the Morava-

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military area, governor of the Rudnik and Požega districts. He was the brother of

Miloš Obrenović Miloš Obrenović (; ; 18 March 1780 or 1783 – 26 September 1860) born Miloš Teodorović (; ), also known as Miloš the Great () was the Prince of Serbia twice, from 1815 to 1839, and from 1858 to 1860. He was an eminent figure of the Firs ...

and

Jevrem Obrenović Prince Jevrem Teodorović Obrenović (18 March 1790 – 20 September 1856) was a Serbian politician and revolutionary. He was the younger brother of Miloš Obrenović I of Serbia, Prince Miloš Obrenović I of Serbia, the founder of the Obren ...

Biography

He was born in Srednja Dobrinja (near

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) around 1787 to his mother Višnja and father Todor Mihailović Obrenović. He was

's youngest brother, after

. Jovan took part in the Meeting in

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and the Battle of Ljubić with Lazar Mutap in 1815. He also took part in the suppression of the Đak rebellion in 1825. His clerk in Brusnica was Nićifor Ninković (also Kara-Marko Vasić's clerk at one time) from 1828. He built a church in Brusnica in 1836. The Jovan rebellion from 1839 was named after him. Together with Jevrem Obrenović, he opposed the Miloš Obrenović administration during the political turmoil from 1839 to 1842. He married Kruna Mihailović in 1814 and had a son Obren (1818-1826) and a daughter Jelisaveta ''Savka'' (1828-1834) with her. He entered into a second marriage in 1835 with Ana Joksić (1818-1880) and had two daughters with her - Anastasia ''Stana'' (1839-1933) and Ermila (1844-1918). Anastasia was married in 1858 to Teodor Aleksić of Maïna (1825—1891). Ermila was married to Nikola Čupić in 1860, and in 1867 to Tihomilj Tesa Nikolić (1832-1886). He was a divisional general and military commander of the Morava-

region during and after the

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. After

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's unsuccessful revolt against Miloš Obrenović in 1842, he moved to

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. Jovan Obrenović died on 22 January 1850 in

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. In his residence from 1835, there is a permanent exhibition of the National Museum in

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. He was credited with the renovation of the Church of the Ascension of the Lord in 1834 in Čačak.

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Obrenovic, Jovan Serbian generals 1787 births 1850 deaths People from the Ottoman Empire