The Musić ( sr-cyr, Мусић, Musići / Мусићи) was a Serbian noble house that served 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 ...

(1345–1371), and during its fall (1371–1389) it served

Tsar Lazar Lazar Hrebeljanović ( sr-cyr, Лазар Хребељановић; ca. 1329 – 15 June 1389) was a medieval Serbian ruler who created the largest and most powerful state on the territory of the disintegrated Serbian Empire. Lazar's state, ...

Serbia Serbia (, ; Serbian: , , ), officially the Republic of Serbia (Serbian: , , ), is a landlocked country in Southeastern and Central Europe, situated at the crossroads of the Pannonian Basin and the Balkans. It shares land borders with Hungar ...

. The eponymous founder was ''čelnik''

Musa Musa may refer to: Places * Mūša, a river in Lithuania and Latvia * Musa, Azerbaijan, a village in Yardymli Rayon * Musa, Iran, a village in Ilam Province * Musa, Chaharmahal and Bakhtiari, Iran *Musa, Kerman, Iran * Musa, Bukan, West Azerbaija ...

, who married Dragana Hrebeljanović, the sister of

(r. 1371-1389). Stefan and

Lazar Musić Lazar may refer to: * Lazar (name), any of various persons with this name * Lazar BVT, Serbian mine resistant, ambush-protected, armoured vehicle * Lazar 2, Serbian armored vehicle * Lazar 3, Serbian armored van * Lazăr, a tributary of the river ...

, the sons of Musa, held a region of roughly modern Raška municipality and

north Kosovo North Kosovo ( sr, Северно Косово, Severno Kosovo; sq, Kosova Veriore), also known as the Ibar Kolašin ( sr, Ибарски Колашин, Ibarski Kolašin; sq, Koloshini i Ibrit or ''Kollashini i Ibrit''; earlier ''Old Kolašin ...

. The brothers died fighting the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Kosovo (1389).

History

They held a region of

, around Ibar with the seat in

Zvečan Zvečan ( sr-Cyrl, Звечан) or Zveçan ( sq-definite, Zveçani) is a town and municipality located in the Mitrovica District in Kosovo. As of 2015, it has a population of 16,650 inhabitants. It covers an area of , and consists of a town and ...

. Musa was given the estate by

Emperor An emperor (from la, imperator, via fro, empereor) is a monarch, and usually the sovereignty, sovereign ruler of an empire or another type of imperial realm. Empress, the female equivalent, may indicate an emperor's wife (empress consort), ...

Stefan Uroš V Saint Stefan Uroš V ( sr-cyrl, Свети Стефан Урош V, ; 13362/4 December 1371), known in historiography and folk tradition as Uroš the Weak ( sr-cyr, Урош Нејаки, Uroš Nejaki), was the second Emperor (Tsar) of the Ser ...

(r. 1355-1371). They relocated their seat to Brvenik on the Ibar, due to the swapping of fortified cities with Vojislav Vojinović (around 1355-1363). Their province included the

Kopaonik Kopaonik ( sr-cyr, Копаоник, ; sq, Kopaoniku) is a mountain range located in Serbia and Kosovo. The highest point is the Pančić's Peak with . The central part of the Kopaonik plateau was declared a national park in 1981 which today cove ...

area (with mines), in the middle of the Ibar and Lab, and stretched from the Radočelo and Brvenička župa in the northwest, to the Brvenica tributary of Lab in the southeast. They supported the politics of Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović (r. 1371–89), and participated in the war against '' veliki župan''

Nikola Altomanović Nikola Altomanović ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Алтомановић; died after 1395) was a 14th-century Serbian župan of the House of Vojinović. He ruled the areas from Rudnik, over Polimlje, Podrinje, east Herzegovina with Trebinje, reachi ...

(1366–73), whom Stefan Musić directly ordered to be blinded in

Užice Užice ( sr-cyr, Ужице, ) is a city and the administrative centre of the Zlatibor District in western Serbia. It is located on the banks of the river Đetinja. According to the 2011 census, the city proper has a population of 59,747. The C ...

, and thus left the political war during the fall of the Empire. The Musić brothers founded the

Nova Pavlica The Nova Pavlica Monastery ( sr, Манастир Нова Павлица, Manastir Nova Pavlica) is a 14th-century Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Pavlica, Raška, in southwestern Serbia. It belongs to the Eparchy of Žiča. The monastery ...

monastery, built after the

Stara Pavlica The Stara Pavlica Monastery ( sr, Манастир Стара Павлица, Manastir Stara Pavlica) is a medieval Serbian Orthodox monastery located in Pavlica, Raška, in south Serbia on a rocky plateau above the Ibar River, six kilometres n ...

, near Brvenik (Ibar). The

ktitor ''Ktetor'' ( el, κτήτωρ) or ''ktitor'' (; ka, ქტიტორი ''kt’it’ori''; ro, ctitor), meaning "founder", is a title given in the Middle Ages to the provider of funds for construction or reconstruction of an Eastern Orthodox ch ...

inscription is preserved. At the request of their mother Dragana, the sister of Lazar Hrebeljanović, the monastery became a nunnery, in which Dragana spent the end of her life as nun. The two Musić brothers fell in the Battle of Kosovo (1389), and were buried in

Members

*Musa, ''čelnik'' under Emperor Stephen Uroš V (1355–1371) ** Stefan Musić (d. 1389) **

(d. 1389) ** Jovan Musić

References

Sources

* Mihaljčić, Rade, ''Kraj srpskog carstva'', Beograd, 1975. (str. 216) * Fajfric
''Sveta loza Stefana Nemanje''
chapter X * The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, John Van Antwerp Fine, 1987 * Ј. Деретић, ''Српска народна епика'', Београд 2000. * Ј. Деретић, ''Историја српске књижевности'', Београд 2002. * Р. Михаљчић, ''Јунаци косовске легенде'', Београд 2001. * М. Шуица, ''Немирно доба српског Средњег века, Властела српских обласних господара'', Београд 2000.
Istorijska Biblioteka: ''Stefan Musić''
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