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

Serbian Empire The Serbian Empire ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Српско царство, Srpsko carstvo, separator=" / ", ) was a medieval Serbian state that emerged from the Kingdom of Serbia. It was established in 1346 by Dušan the Mighty, who significantly expande ...

(1345–1371), and during its fall (1371–1389) it served Tsar Lazar's

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. The eponymous founder was ''čelnik''

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, who married Dragana Hrebeljanović, the sister of Tsar Lazar (r. 1371-1389). Stefan and Lazar Musić, the sons of Musa, held a region of roughly modern Raška municipality and

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. The brothers died fighting the Ottoman Empire in the

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(1389).

History

They held a region of

, around Ibar with the seat in

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. Musa was given the estate by

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Stefan Uroš V Saint Stefan Uroš V ( sr-Cyrl, Стефан Урош V, ; 13362/4 December 1371), known in historiography and folk tradition as Uroš the Weak (), was the Emperor of the Serbs, second Emperor (Tsar#Serbia, Tsar) of the Serbian Empire (1355–13 ...

(r. 1355-1371). They relocated their seat to Brvenik on the Ibar, due to the swapping of fortified cities with

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(around 1355-1363). Their province included the Kopaonik 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 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 ...

(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, reach ...

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

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, and thus left the political war during the fall of the Empire. The Musić brothers founded the Nova Pavlica monastery, built after the Stara Pavlica, near Brvenik (Ibar). The

ktitor ''Ktetor'' () or ''ktitor'' (; ka, ქტიტორი ; ), meaning 'founder', is a title given in the Middle Ages to the provider of funds for construction or reconstruction of an Eastern Orthodox church or monastery, for the addition of icon ...

inscription is preserved. At the request of their mother Dragana, the sister of Lazar Hrebeljanović, the monastery became a

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, in which Dragana spent the end of her life as nun. The two Musić brothers fell in the

(1389), and were buried in Nova Pavlica.

Members

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