DRAGUTIN, King Stefan

1251 - 1316  (65 years)  Submit Photo / Document

Loading...

 Set As Default Person

 Restore Site Default Person

• Name	DRAGUTIN, Stefan
  Prefix	King
  Birth	1251	Raska, Yugoslavia
  Gender	Male
  _TAG	Reviewed on FS
  Burial	1316	Monastery Djurdjevi Stupovi, Novi Pazar, Sumadija and Western, Serbia
  Death	12 Mar 1316	Djurdjevi Stupov, Srbija, Yugoslavia
  Headstones	Submit Headstone Photo
  Person ID	I48004	Joseph Smith Sr and Lucy Mack Smith
  Last Modified	19 Aug 2021

  
  

  Family	HUNGARY, Princess Katalin ,   b. Abt 1257, Budapest, Pest, Hungary Budapest, Pest, Hungaryd. 1317, Budapest, Pest, Hungary (Age 60 years)
  Marriage	Abt 1269	Budapest, Hungary
  Family ID	F24744	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	24 Jan 2022

  
  

• Photos

  At least one living or private individual is linked to this item - Details withheld.

  
  

• Notes

  BIOGRAPHY: Stefan Dragutin (Serbian: Стефан Драгутин, Hungarian: Dragutin István; c. 1244 – 12 March 1316) was King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282. From 1282, he ruled a separate kingdom which included northern Serbia, and (from 1284) the neighboring Hungarian banates (or border provinces), for which he was unofficially styled as "King of Syrmia". He was the eldest son of King Stefan Uroš I of Serbia and Helen of Anjou. He received the title of "young king" in token of his right to succeed his father after a peace treaty between Uroš I and Béla IV of Hungary who was the grandfather of Dragutin's wife, Catherine, in 1268. He rebelled against his father and forced him to abdicate with Hungarian assistance in 1282. King of Syrmia Tenure 1282–1316 Successor Stefan Vladislav II of Syrmia King of Serbia Tenure 1276–1282 Predecessor Stefan Uroš I Successor Stefan Uroš II Milutin Burial Đurđevi Stupovi Spouse Catherine of Hungary Issue Vladislav Elizabeth Urošica Dynasty Nemanjić Father Stefan Uroš I Mother Helen of Anjou Religion Eastern Orthodoxy Dragutin abandoned Uroš I's centralizing policy and ceded large territories to his mother in appanage. After a riding accident, he abdicated in favor of his brother, Milutin in 1282, but he retained the northern regions of Serbia along the Hungarian border. Two years later, his brother-in-law, Ladislaus IV of Hungary, granted him three banates—Mačva (or Sirmia ulterior), Usora and Soli—to him. He was the first Serbian monarch to rule Belgrade. With his brother's support, he also occupied the Banate of Braničevo in 1284 or 1285. Dragutin was in theory a vassal both to his brother (for his Serbian territories), and to the Hungarian monarchs (for the four banates), but he actually ruled his realm as an independent ruler from the 1290s. His conflicts with Milutin developed into an open war in 1301 and he made frequent raids against the neighboring Hungarian lords from 1307. Most of the Serbian noblemen supported Dragutin, but he was forced to make peace with Milutin after Milutin's mercenaries routed him in 1311 or 1312. Before his death, he entered into a monastery and died as the monk Teokist. In the list of Serbian saints, Dragutin is venerated on 12 November or 30 October (Old Style and New Style dates).[citation needed] Early Life Dragutin was the eldest son of King Stefan Uroš I of Serbia and Helen of Anjou.[1][2] The place and date of his birth is unknown.[3] In 1264, the monk Domentijan recorded that the "fourth generation" of the descendants of Stefan Nemanja was already old enough "to ride a horse and carry a warrior's lance".[3] For Domentijan obviously referred to Dragutin, historian Miodrag Purković concluded that Dragutin must have been twenty at that time and dated Dragutin's birth to around 1244.[4] Neither is known the date of Dragutin's marriage with Catherine of Hungary.[1] His father and her grandfather, Béla IV of Hungary, most probably decided the marriage during the peace negotiations that followed Uroš I's invasion of Mačva in 1268,[1][2][5][6] but an earlier date cannot be excluded.[3] Mačva was a Hungarian border province to the north of Serbia which had been governed by Béla IV's daughter, Anna, on behalf of her minor son, Béla.[1] Uroš I launched a plundering raid against the province, but he was captured and forced to seek a reconciliation.[1] Catherine's father, Stephen V, had been bearing the title of "younger king" as his father's co-ruler and heir and the same title was bestowed on Dragutin in token of his exclusive right to inherit Serbia from his father.[7][8] The Peace of Pressburg between Stephen V and King Ottokar II of Bohemia is the first extant document which mentioned Dragutin as younger king.[6] Decades later, Danilo II, Archbishop of Serbia, recorded that Dragutin's Hungarian in-laws also expected that Uroš would cede parts of his realm to Dragutin to allow him to rule them independently.[7][8] The peace agreement may have explicitly prescribed the division of Serbia between Uroš I and Dragutin, according to Aleksandar Krstić and other historians.[6][7][8] After spending years to strengthen central government, Uroš was reluctant to divide his kingdom with his son.[7] Dragutin and his wife were living in his father's court when a Byzantine envoy visited Serbia in the late 1260s.[9] Dragutin rose up against his father in 1276.[9] Whether he only wanted to persuade his father to share power with him, or he was afraid of being disinherited in favor of his younger brother, Milutin, cannot be decided.[9] Dragutin's brother-in-law, Ladislaus IV of Hungary, sent Hungarian and Cuman troops to Serbia to assist him.[10] Dragutin routed his father near Gacko in the autumn of 1276.[10] Uroš abdicated without further resistance and entered the Sopoćani Monastery where he died a year later.[9] Reign Edit Serbia Edit The Archbishop of Serbia, Joanikije I, abdicated after the fall of Uroš I.[9] He may have expressed his protest against Dragutin's usurpation in this way, or he may have been forced to resign because of his close relationship with the dethroned monarch.[9] Soon after ascending the throne, Dragutin, gave large parts of Serbia—including Zeta, Trebinje and other coastal territories, and Plav—to his mother in appanage.[11] Helen's appanage included the core territories of the former Kingdom of Duklja and developed into a province of the heirs to the Serbian throne after her death.[8] Milutin accompanied their mother to her realm and settled in Shkodër.[11] Coin of Dragutin Serbia's relationship with the Republic of Ragusa had been tense during the last years of Uroš I's reign, although his wife secretly supported the republic.[1] Dragutin achieved a reconciliation shortly after he mounted the throne.[8] Charles I of Anjou, King of Sicily, wanted to involve Dragutin into a coalition against the Byzantine Empire.[12] The two kings exchanged letters about this issue in 1279.[13] Dragutin fell off his horse and broke his leg in early 1282.[12] His injury was so severe that a council was convoked to Deževo to make decisions about the government of Serbia.[11] At the council, Dragutin abdicated in favor of Milutin,[8] but the circumstances of his abdications are uncertain.[14][15] Decades later, Dragutin remembered that he had already come into conflict with Milutin, but he had ceded the government to Milutin only provisionally, until he recovered.[14] Archbishop Danilo II wrote that Dragutin abdicated because he regarded the riding accident as God's punishment for his acts against his father, but the Archbishop also referred to unspecified "serious troubles" that contributed to Dragutin's decision.[14] The Byzantine historian, George Pachymeres, was informed that Dragutin's abdication had been definitive, but Pachymeres also mentioned an agreement between the two brothers that secured the right of Dragutin's (unnamed) son to succeed Milutin.[14] For reign in Sirmia ulterior see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Dragutin. For references and sources see: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stefan_Dragutin