The Belojević' clan ( sr-cyrl, Белојевић), colloquially Travunian dynasty, was a local Slavic ruling clan from region surrounding

Trebinje Trebinje ( sr-Cyrl, Требиње, ) is a city and municipality in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is the southernmost city in Bosnia and Herzegovina and is situated on the banks of the Trebišnjica river in the region of East Her ...

, a center of an early Slavic polity, '' Travunia''. The clan was in vassal relations with the first Serbian Principality's ruling Vlastimirović's, but constantly strived for independence starting with the clan's progenitor Beloje, who sought to free himself of Serbian rule. Beloje was mentioned as the ''

župan Župan is a noble and administrative title used in several states in Central Europe, Central and Southeast Europe, Southeastern Europe between the 7th century and the 21st century. It was (and in Croatia still is) the leader of the administrat ...

'' of Travunia in the chapter on the Serbs in ''

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'' () of Byzantine Emperor

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(r. 945–959). Prince Vlastimir (r. 836–851) married his daughter to Beloje's son

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, and elevated him to the rank of ''archon'', sometime prior the

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.Veselinovic, p. 24 Krajina's descendants were entitled to rule the region comprising the hinterland of

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and Boka Kotorska, with seat at

,Radonjić, pp. 109-110 still under Serbian suzerainty. The clan is later mentioned in the semi-mythical Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja, which mentioned that a descendant of Hvalimir,

Dragomir Dragomir () is a Slavic masculine name, mostly found in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, North Macedonia, Bulgaria, Russia, and Ukraine as well as Romania. It is composed of the Slavic words '' drag'' (dear, precious) and ''mir'' (peace), both very comm ...

, ruled ''Travunia'' in the second half of the 10th century, his brother Petrislav ruling

Duklja Duklja ( sr-Cyrl, Дукља; ; ) was a medieval South Slavs, South Slavic state which roughly encompassed the territories of modern-day southeastern Montenegro, from the Bay of Kotor in the west to the Bojana river in the east, and to the sou ...

and his son

Stefan Vojislav Stefan Vojislav ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Војислав, ; 1034–d. 1043) was the Prince of Duklja from 1018 to 1043. Beginning in the year 1018, he served as a Byzantine governor, until 1034 when he led an unsuccessful revolt that landed him i ...

later ruling Duklja and founding the Vojislavljević dynasty.

Members

* Beloje (before 839), lord of

(fl. 847), married the daughter of Vlastimir in 847/848, becomes Župan of Travunia ***Hvalimir (, ,"Sebraneʹ spisy"
p. 759
/ref> ; late 9th century) ****Čučimir (; first half of 10th centuryGrumel, p. 390) *****

, rules Travunia the second half of 10th century ******

Vojislav Vojislav ( sr-Cyrl, Војислав, ) is a Serbian masculine given name, a Slavic dithematic name (of two lexemes), derived from the Slavic words ''voj'' ("war, warrior"), and ''slava'' ("glory, fame"). Its feminine form is '' Vojislava''. ...

, lord of Trebinje the first half of 11th century, becomes prince of

in 1018

References

Sources

* * * * *P. Radonjić, ''„Velaj“'', u: ''Srpski biografski rečnik'', II tom, ur. Čedomir Popov, Novi Sad 2008, str. 109–110. * *Andrija Veselinović, Radoš Ljušić, ''„Srpske dinastije“'', Novi Sad, 2001. (str. 24) *Venance Grumel, ''La chronologie'', Paris 1958, p. 390 {{DEFAULTSORT:Belojevic clan Medieval Herzegovina People from Trebinje T

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