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Vladislav
Vladislav at Dečani (frescoes finished in 1350).
King of Syrmia
Reign	1316–1325
Coronation	1316
Predecessor	Stefan Dragutin
Born	1280
Died	1325 (aged 44–45)
Spouse	Constanza Morosini
Dynasty	Nemanjić
Father	Stefan Dragutin
Mother	Catherine of Hungary
Religion	Serbian Orthodox

Vladislav (Serbian Cyrillic: Владислав; 1280–1326) was the King of Syrmia from 1316 to 1325, and claimant to the Serbian Kingdom.

He was the son of Stefan Dragutin, who had ruled Serbia until 1282, when he became ill and abdicated, giving the superior rule to his younger brother Stefan Milutin. Dragutin continued to rule the royal domain of Syrmia, which was later inherited by Vladislav.

Early life

Born around 1270, Vladislav was the eldest son of the Crown Prince of Serbia, Stefan Dragutin, and Catherine of Hungary. Shortly before Vladislav's birth, Dragutin was awarded with the title of "junior king" in token of his right to succeed his father, Stefan Uroš I. Vladislav became the new heir to the Serbian throne after Dragutin dethroned his father with Hungarian assistance in 1276. A riding accident forced Dragutin to abdicate in favor of his younger brother, Stefan Milutin, in the spring of 1282, but he could retain the northern regions of Serbia as a separate realm. The Byzantine historian, George Pachymeres, recorded that the right of one of Dragutin's two sons (Vladislav or Urošica) to succeed Milutin was also confirmed.

Vladislav's maternal cousin, Charles Martel of Anjou, who had laid claim to Hungary, awarded Vladislav with Slavonia and granted him the title of duke, implying that Vladislav and his father supported Charles Martel against Andrew III of Hungary in the early 1290s. Charles Martel's father, Charles II of Naples, confirmed the grant on 19 August 1292. Dragutin and Vladislav sought reconciliation with Andrew III. In 1293, Vladislav married Constanza Morosini who was a granddaughter of the king's maternal uncle, Albertino Morosini.

Milutin made steps to appoint his eldest son, Stefan Konstantin, as his heir from around 1306. He even approached Pope Clement V and offered the union of the Serbian Orthodox Church with Rome in return for the confirmation of Stefan Konstantin's right to succeed him.

Dragutin and Vladislav's support to Charles Martel ended in 1293 after Vladislav married Costanza Morosini, the niece of Andrew III. Andrew III died in 1301 and was succeeded by Charles Martel's son, Charles Robert.

After King Dragutin died in 1316, Vladislav succeeded him as ruler of the Kingdom of Syrmia, but the king of Serbia, Stefan Milutin, his uncle, defeated him and imprisoned him. When Milutin died in 1321, the newly freed Vladislav got to rule the lands of his father, with the help of the Hungarians, the Bulgarians, the Bosnian Ban and the Šubić family. The rule, according to law, was to be given to Vladislav.

Tsar Michael Asen III of Bulgaria, newly in conflict with Vladislav's cousin Stefan Dečanski, the successor of Milutin, started to support Vladislav as the rightful monarch of whole Serbia, but this support showed insufficient. After having been beaten again by supporters of Stefan Dečanski, he retreated to the Kingdom of Hungary in 1324. Vladislav's sororal nephew Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia, then started to rule Vladislav's lands in Bosnia (Soli and Usora), and around Lower Syrmia where long battles between Serbs and Hungarians were frequent.

Vladislav was married to Constanza Morosini, maternal relative of Andrew III of Hungary.

Annotations

1. He is sometimes numbered as Vladislav II or Stefan Vladislav II (Стефан Владислав II).

References

1. Krstić 2016, p. 33.
2. Krstić 2016, pp. 33–34.
3. Krstić 2016, p. 34.
4. Krstić 2016, pp. 34, 37.
5. Krstić 2016, p. 36.
6. ^ Krstić 2016, p. 39.
7. Krstić 2016, pp. 39–40.
8. Krstić 2016, p. 40.
9. Krstić 2016, p. 41.
10. ^ Fajfrić 2000, 26. Помирење са Византијом.
11. Spomenik. Vol. 36. 1900. p. 104. Од краља Драгутина чији син Владислав требао је по закону да на " следи престо краља Милутина, Владислав син Драгутинов, а не слепи искључени из наследства Стефан Урош Дечански, који је прогнао законитог краља ...

Sources

• Bataković, Dušan T., ed. (2005). Histoire du peuple serbe [History of the Serbian People] (in French). Lausanne: L’Age d’Homme. ISBN 9782825119587.
• Ćirković, Sima (2004). The Serbs. Malden: Blackwell Publishing. ISBN 9781405142915.
• Engel, Pál (2001). The Realm of St. Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526. London & New York: I.B.Tauris. ISBN 9781850439776.
• Fine, John Van Antwerp Jr. (1994) . The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. Ann Arbor, Michigan: University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0472082604.
• Jireček, Constantin (1911). Geschichte der Serben. Vol. 1. Gotha: Perthes.
• Krstić, Aleksandar R. (2016). "The Rival and the Vassal of Charles Robert of Anjou: King Vladislav II Nemanjić". Banatica. 26 (2): 33–51.
• Vásáry, István (2005). Cumans and Tatars: Oriental Military in the Pre-Ottoman Balkans, 1185–1365. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781139444088.

Further reading

• Fajfrić, Željko (2000) , Sveta loza Stefana Nemanje, Belgrade: Janus; Rastko
• Stanojević, Stanoje (1936). Kralj Dragutin. Belgrade: Geca Kon.
• Ljub. Andrejević (1898). Srpski kraljevski presto i pitanje o njegovom nasledstvu: od ostavke kralja Stefana Dragutina do pobede kralja Stefana Uroša III, nad kraljem Vladislavom II : istoriska rasprava. Štamp. D. Dimitrijevića.
• Јелена Мргић; Тибор Живковић (2008). Северна Босна: 13-16. век. Историјски институт. ISBN 9788677430719.
• Младен Лесковац; Александар Форишковић; Чедомир Попов (2004). Српски биографски речник. Будућност. ISBN 9788683651627.

External links

v t e Nemanjić dynasty
Main ruling members	see family tree Stefan Nemanja Stefan the First-Crowned Vukan Radoslav Vladislav Uroš I Dragutin (Uroš II) Milutin (Uroš III) Dečanski (Uroš IV) Dušan Uroš V
Other ruling members	Đorđe Konstantin Tih Vladislav of Syrmia Stefan Konstantin John Uroš Simeon Uroš
Archbishops	Sava Sava II
Minor members	Vratislav Vratko Urošica Dmitar Stefan Vukanović Stefan Uroš of Pharsalos Desa
Female members	Komnena, Duchess of Kruja and Elbasan Brnjača Zorica Jelena, Princess of Bribir Elizabeth, Baness of Bosnia Ana-Neda, Empress of Bulgaria Teodora-Evdokija, Despotess Milica, Princess of Serbia Maria Angelina, Empress of Epirus Jelena Lazarević
Consorts	Anastasia Eudokia of Byzantium Anna Dandolo Anna Doukaina Beloslava of Bulgaria Helena of Anjou Catherine of Hungary Helena Doukaina Angelina Elizabeth of Hungary Anna Terter of Bulgaria Simonida of Byzantium Theodora Smilets of Bulgaria Maria Palaiologina Helena of Bulgaria Anna of Wallachia

• 1280 births
• 1325 deaths
• 13th-century Serbian royalty
• 14th-century Serbian royalty
• 14th-century Serbian monarchs
• Pretenders to the Serbian throne in the Middle Ages
• History of Syrmia
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• Medieval history of Serbia
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