Rastislalić (Растислалић) was a Serbian noble family that held lands in the Braničevo region of

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian language, Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeast Europe, Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Bas ...

in the 14th century, initially under the Serbian crown and later under the Hungarian. They held Braničevo and Kučevo.

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During the rule of Stefan Uroš IV Dušan 'the Mighty' (r. 1331-1355),

Branko Branko (Cyrillic script: Бранко; ) is a South Slavic male given name found in all of the former Yugoslavia. It is related to the names Branimir and Branislav, and the female equivalent is Branka. People named Branko include: * Branko Babić ...

(d. 1352) gained control of the Braničevo region, he was accidentally killed during a hunt by ''voivode''

Vuk Kosača Vuk ( cyrl, Вук; 1317–1359), sometimes also called ''Hran'' in sources, was the 14th century magnate and a powerful nobleman, who was in service to the Serbian king Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55). Vuk is considered to be a progenitor of Bosnian ...

, his relatives later avenged his death in 1359, when they murdered Vuk. The feud continued between the two families, Stefan Uroš V 'the Weak' was at war with Tsar Symeon, the Rastislalići turned to the other side of the Danube, where Hungarian-ruled territory in

Mačva Mačva ( sr-Cyrl, Мачва, ; hu, Macsó) is a geographical and historical region in the northwest of Central Serbia, on a fertile plain between the Sava and Drina rivers. The chief town is Šabac. The modern Mačva District of Serbia is name ...

was held by Ban

Nicholas I Garay Nicholas I Garai ( hu, Garai I Miklós, hr, Nikola I Gorjanski) (''c.'' 132525 July 1386) was a most influential officeholder under king Louis I and queen Mary of Hungary. He was ban of Macsó between 1359 and 1375, and palatine from 1375 until h ...

. A Hungarian band was sent to take care of the enemies in Braničevo, and they became vassals of the Kingdom of Hungary. In 1359, perhaps at their invitation,

Louis I of Hungary Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Veliki; sk, Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( pl, Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 ...

marched into Serbia and defeated Uroš V.

Radič Branković Radič Branković ( sr-cyr, Радич Бранковић) was a 14th-century Serbian feudal lord of Braničevo under Dušan the Mighty of the Serbian Empire His family ( House of Rastislalić) had gained possession of Braničevo in the 14th ce ...

was the last feudal lord; he was evicted in 1379 by Knez Lazar who issued a military action against him. The family also issued a regional

currency A currency, "in circulation", from la, currens, -entis, literally meaning "running" or "traversing" is a standardization of money in any form, in use or circulation as a medium of exchange, for example banknotes and coins. A more general def ...

, the "Helmet dinars"''Coinage in South Eastern Europe, 820-1396''
p. 308
/ref> one of only three to be created prior to the end of the

Serbian Empire The Serbian Empire ( sr, / , ) was a medieval Serbian state that emerged from the Kingdom of Serbia. It was established in 1346 by Dušan the Mighty, who significantly expanded the state. Under Dušan's rule, Serbia was the major power in the ...

in 1371. (Summary of "Mihajlovic, Vojislav. ''Novac srpskih velikasa iz vremena carstva''. Belgrade (2000)")

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Branko Rastislalić Branko Rastislalić ( sr-cyr, Бранко Растислалић) was the ''"Lord of Podunavlje"'' and ''Domestikos'' under Dušan the Mighty of the Serbian Empire from circa 1340; later he became vassal of the Hungarians until his death in 1352. ...

, ''domesticus'' of Podunavlje (d. 1352), Serbian crown **

, Lord of Braničevo -1379, under Hungarian crown * Brajko, nobleman * Raosav, nobleman

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