The House of Lazarević ( sr-Cyrl, Лазаревић, Lazarevići / Лазаревићи, ) was a Serbian medieval

royal family A royal family is the immediate family of monarchs and sometimes their extended family. The term imperial family appropriately describes the family of an emperor or empress, and the term papal family describes the family of a pope, while th ...

, which ruled Moravian Serbia and the Serbian Despotate.

History

The dynasty began with

Lazar Hrebeljanović Lazar Hrebeljanović ( sr-Cyrl, Лазар Хребељановић; – 15 June 1389) was a medieval List of Serbian monarchs, Serbian ruler who created the largest and most powerful state on the territory of the disintegrated Serbian Empir ...

, son of Pribac Hrebeljanović a noble at the court of

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. Lazar married Milica Nemanjić, member of the collateral branch of the reigning Nemanjić dynasty, and was later given the title "Knez" by Serbian Emperor Uroš the Weak. He gained lands in Central Serbia and through his ties with the Nemanjićs he became the regent of Moravian Serbia. In the Battle of Kosovo against the

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, Lazar was killed and Serbia became a vassal state, leading to the end of Serbian sovereignty.

Monarchs

Rulers of Moravian Serbia from 1371 to 1427. *

(1371–1389) *

Stefan Lazarević Stefan Lazarević ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Лазаревић, 1377 – 19 July 1427), also known as Stefan the Tall (), was a Serbian ruler as prince (1389–1402) and Despot (court title), despot (1402–1427). He was also a diplomat, legislat ...

(1389–1427)

Family tree

*Pribac **Draginja, who married Čelnik

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, founder of Musić noble family **Lazar; ''Lazarevići'' **Ratoslava, who married Grand Župan Altoman Vojinović ;Lazarević: Lazar married Princess Milica Nemanjic in around 1353 and had at least seven children: * Mara, married

Vuk Branković Vuk Branković ( sr-Cyrl, Вук Бранковић, , 1345 – 6 October 1397) was a Serbian medieval nobleman who, during the Fall of the Serbian Empire, inherited a province that extended over present-day southern and southwestern Serbia, enti ...

, founder of Branković dynasty in around 1371 and died April 12, 1426, *

(c. 1377 – July 19, 1427), Prince (1389–1402) and Despot (1402–1427), married Helene Gattilusio, daughter of Francesco II of Lesbos in 1405, granddaughter of Princess Maria Palaiologina, sister of the

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. * Vuk, Prince, executed on July 6, 1410 * Dragana, married Emperor Ivan Shishman of Bulgaria in around 1386, died before July 1395 * Teodora, married Nicholas II Garay, Palatine of Hungary and member of powerful Garay family * Jelena (Jela), married Đurađ II Stracimirović, Lord of Zeta and member of Balšić noble family, then Sandalj Hranić,

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and member of Kosača noble familyMrđenović (1987), p.108 and died March 1443, * Olivera Despina (1372 – after 1444), married

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Bayezid I Bayezid I (; ), also known as Bayezid the Thunderbolt (; ; – 8 March 1403), was the sultan of the Ottoman Empire from 1389 to 1402. He adopted the title of ''Sultan-i Rûm'', ''Rûm'' being the Arabic name for the Eastern Roman Empire. In 139 ...

in 1390

References

Sources

* * * *Veselinović, Andrija & Ljušić, Radoš (2001). Српске династије, Platoneum. *Fajfrić, Željko. ''Sveta loza kneza Lazara''. *Marjanović-Dušanić, Smilja. "Dinastija i svetost u doba porodice Lazarević: stari uzori i novi modeli." Zbornik radova Vizantoloskog instituta 43 (2006): 77-97.

External links

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