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This is a list of monarchs of Serbia.

Early rulers; House of Zupan

• Dervan (r. ? - 626), ruler of White Serbia
• Unknown Archont (r. ? - 680)
• Višeslav I (r. 780 - 800s), ruler of Tara, Piva, Lim and united the Serbian tribes into Rascia
• Radoslav (r. 800-822)
• Prosigoj (822 - 836 )

House of Vlastimirović

The House of Vlastimirović controlled the Serbs between ca. 825-850 up to ca. 950.

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Vlastimir of Serbia	836 - 850	Rascia Travunija Konavli Duklja	son of Prosigoj, ruled around 850, or only up to 825 according to some; founder of House of Vlastimirović. Vlastimir had three sons (Mutimir, Strojimir and Gojnik) and one daughter. His daughter married župan of Travunija Krajina Belojević, son of Beloje of Trebinje. Each son had his own domain, but Mutimir, the eldest, was the supreme ruler, his two brothers being subjugated (vassals) to him. The brothers successfully fought off a Bulgarian onslaught by Boris of Bulgaria in 852. Later, the two youngest brothers rebelled against Mutimir, who, as a punishment, let Boris subjugate them.
	Mutimir of Serbia	850 - 891	Rascia Travunija Konavli Duklja	He was the oldest of the three brothers and had the main position after his father's ascession. Mutimir, together with his brothers Gojnik and Strojimir, defeated the Bulgar Army sent by Tsar Boris and led by his son Vladimir.
File:Seal of Prince Strojimir mirrored.png	Strojimir and Gojnik	850 - 856	Rascia Travunija Konavli Duklja	After power struggle between Strojimir and Mutimir, Strojimir and Gojnik was captured and sent as prisoners to Bulgar khan Boris in 855-856. They lost their titles of Zupans of Serbia and were held at Pliska, the Bulgarian capital, but treated well by the Bulgarians, Khan Boris himself chose the wife of Klonimir, the son of Strojimir.
	Prvoslav of Serbia	891-893	Serbia	He was the eldest son of Mutimir. Prvoslav ruled Serbia briefly for a year when Petar Gojnikovic, the son of Gojnik, returned from Croatia and after a battle defeated Prvoslav in 892, retaking the rule of Serbia. Prvoslav fled to Croatia and his son, Zaharije I, had the goals to rule Serbia but remained in Constantinople for a long period before ruling Serbia 921-924. Stefan Mutimirović and Bran Mutimirović was his two younger brothers who took over his power.
	Bran and Stefan	895	Serbia	born 867 and 870, After the death of their father Mutimir, his elder brother Prvoslav took the Serbian crown, but was after a year deposed by their cousin Petar Gojnikovic and fled with Bran and youngest brother Stefan to Croatia. Three years after the accession of Peter, Bran rebelled against him, but was captured and blinded. Bran was married and had a son, Pavle Branović.
	Petar Gojniković	892-917	Serbia	born in ~870 to Gojnik. Deposed Prvoslav in 891-892, making the Mutimir sons flee to Croatia, later caught Bran in 895 under an attempted rebellion and blinded him by Byzantine tradition, he broke off the diplomatic ties to Croatia. In 897 he kills Klonimir in battle. He became the godfather of Tsar Simeon and annexed Pagania, gained Bosnia and most of Zahumlje. His name (Peter) symbolizes the finished Christianization of Serbia.
	Pavle Branović	917-921	Serbia	born to Bran. Vassal to Bulgar Symeon I, defeated by Mihajlo Visevic.
	Zaharije Pribisavljević	921-924	Serbia	born to Prvoslav. Defeated Pavle in 921~.
		924-927	Serbia	Bulgarian rule 924-927
	Časlav Klonimirović	927-950	Serbia	born to Klonimir. Liberated the central Serbian tribes from Bulgarian empire, concluded a voluntary confederation with the chiefs of Bosnia that brought them out of Croatia's control and together with Zahumlje, Pagania, Neretva, Travunia, Zeta and Raska established a unified Serb state that encompassed the shores of the Adriatic sea, the Sava river and the Morava river valley as well as Northern Albania.

Division of Serbia

Serbian monarchs then distributed their lands, dividing Serbia. See List of rulers of Rascia and List of rulers of Duklja.

In 1165 the Byzantium divided the lands between the four sons of Zavida: Tihomir in Raška, Stracimir in Duklja, Miroslav in Zahumlje and Travunia, and Stefan Nemanja in Toplica (in today's central Serbia). Stefan Nemanja rebelled against his eldest brother Tihomir in 1166, who fled with his brothers Stracimir and Miroslav to Byzantium to seek help. But later on, Stefan Nemanja defeated his Greek army of mercenaries in the same year near the town of Pantino on Kosovo in which Tihomir drowned in the River of Sitnica. Nemanja captured his other brothers and made peace with them by giving them rule in their former parts of the land to recognise him as the only ruler of Rascia or Serbia. The Nemanjić dynasty was named after Stefan Nemanja and ruled over Serbia until 1371.

Unified Serbia

House of Nemanjić / The Stefan Dynasty

The House of Nemanjić ruled the Serb lands between ca. 1166 up to 1371. All Serbian rulers after Stefan Prvovenčani ("the First-Crowned") added the name Stefan (Stephen) before their birth names after ascending the throne as a manner of honoring first rulers of their dynasty Stefan Nemanja and Stefan Prvovenčani. The name Stefan is derived from Greek Stephanos, meaning crowned with wreath. There is no absolutely consistent system for the enumeration of Medieval Serbian monarchs. Some rulers reigned with double names: Stefan Nemanja, Stefan Radoslav, Stefan Vladislav, and Stefan Uroš. While Prvovenčani and Dečanski are epithets, not names, the exact nature of Dragutin and Milutin—names or nicknames—is unclear. However, unlike the names Nemanja, Radoslav, Vladislav, Uroš, and even Dušan, they never appear in the official contemporary sources. Therefore Prvovenčani and Dragutin are most accurately to be numbered simply Stefan I and Stefan II, since those were their only official names. For the basic imperial title of the last Nemanjićs, see article Tsar.

Picture	Name	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Stefan Nemanja	1168-1196 1186-1196	Rascia Duklja	Ruler of Serbs from 1166 to 1199. He established control over the territories of neighboring Serb states, including Zeta/Doclea, and unified them into a single state. He founded the Nemanjić dynasty and became recognized as an Orthodox Christian Saint (Symeon) after numerous alleged miracles following his death.
	Stefan Prvovenčani	1195-1208 1202–1204	Duklja Rascia	ruled under Stefan Nemanjić.
	Vukan Nemanjić	1196-1217 1217-1228	Rascia	first son of Stefan Nemanja, proclaimed King of Serbia, Dalmatia and Bosnia by Pope Honorius III in 1217
	Stefan Radoslav	1228–1234	Rascia Zahumlje Zeta	son of Stefan I Prvovenčani
	Stefan Vladislav	1233–1243	Rascia Zahumlje Zeta	son of Stefan I Prvovenčani
	Stefan Uroš	1243–1276	Serbia	son of Stefan I Prvovenčani
	Stefan Dragutin	1276-1282 1282-1316	Serbia Syrmia	son of Stefan Uroš I
	Stefan Milutin	1282–1321	Serbia	son of Stefan Uroš I
	Stefan Vladislav II	1316–1325	Syrmia	son of Stefan II Dragutin
	Stefan Konstantin	1321–1322	Serbia	son of Stefan Uroš II Milutin, deposed by Stefan Dečanski
	Stefan Dečanski	1321–1331	Serbia	son of Stefan Uroš II Milutin
	Dušan the Mighty	1331-1345 1346–1355	Rascia Serbian Empire	son of Stefan Uroš III Dečanski, crowned Emperor of Serbs and Greeks on 16 April 1346 in Skopje
	Uroš the Weak	1346–1355 1355–1371	Serbia Serbian Empire	son of Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, put as King of Rascia (1346–1355) by brother Dušan, then succedes as Emperor after the death of Dušan in 1355.

House of Mrnjavčević

The last Serbian emperor (tsar) Stefan Uroš V associated Vukašin Mrnjavčević as king in 1366. The Serbian royal title thus survived in this family, but in fact the authority of these kings was circumscribed by the local nobility and confined to parts of central and eastern Macedonia (Kingdom of Prilep). The Serbian royal title was also claimed by Tvrtko I of Bosnia, a descendant of Stefan Dragutin, from 1377. Tvrtko I used the titles King of Serbs, of Bosnia, and of the Coastlands from 1377 and King of Rascia, Bosnia, Dalmatia, Croatia, and the Coastlands from 1390, but died in 1391.

• Vukašin Mrnjavčević (1366 - 26 September 1371)
• Marko Kraljević (1371–1395), son of Vukašin

House of Lazarević

Serbia proper came under the control of Lazar Hrebeljanović, who had married Milica, a descendant of Stefan Nemanja's eldest son Vukan. The Lazarevići and their successors, the Brankovići, ruled as princes, but were frequently distinguished by the Byzantine court title of despotēs, granted by the last Byzantine Emperors to their allies.

• Lazar I Hrebeljanović (1371 - 15 June 1389)
• Stefan III Lazarević (1389 - 19 July 1427), son of Lazar I

House of Branković

• Đurađ I Branković (1427 - 26 December 1456), grandson of Lazar I
• Lazar II Branković (December 1456 - 20 January 1458), son of Đurađ I
• Jelena (Marija) (1458–1459), daughter of Lazar II
• (Stefan Branković (1458–1459), son of Đurađ I, regent for niece)
• Stefan IV Tomašević (21 March/1 April 1459 - 20 June 1459), husband of Jelena; deposed, also King of Bosnia as Stjepan Tomašević.

Serbia proper was annexed by the Ottoman Empire in 1459. In 1471 a dependent Serbian state was established by the Hungarians mostly on the territory of Vojvodina and Syrmia.

• Vuk Branković (1471–1485), grandson of Đurađ I
• Đurađ II Branković also Đorđe Branković (1486–1496), son of Stefan Branković, abdicated
• Jovan Branković (1496–1502), son of Stefan Branković

Jovan Nenad

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Jovan Nenad	1526 - July 26, 1527	Serb Empire of Jovan Nenad (Vojvodina)	Many Serbian historians consider him the founder of contemporary Vojvodina

Radoslav Čelnik

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Radoslav Čelnik	1527 - 1529/30	Srem	He was general commander of Emperor Jovan Nenad's army.

Monarchs of modern Serbian states (1804-1918)

First Serbian Uprising (1804-1813)

Karađorđević Dynasty

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Karađorđe Petrović 3 November 1768 - 24 July 1817	15 February 1804 - 21 September 1813	Founder of Principality of Serbia	deposed

Principality of Serbia (1815-1882)

Obrenović Dynasty

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Miloš Obrenović I March 18, 1780 - September 26, 1860	November 6, 1817 - June 25, 1839	Principality of Serbia	Abdicated
	Milan Obrenović II October 21, 1819 - July 8, 1839	June 25, 1839 - July 8, 1839	Principality of Serbia	Ruled for only 26 days
	Mihailo Obrenović III (first reign) September 16, 1823 - June 10, 1868	July 8, 1839 - September 14, 1842	Principality of Serbia	Deposed

Karađorđević Dynasty

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Aleksandar Karađorđević 11 October 1806 - 3 May 1885	14 September 1842 – 23 December 1858	Principality of Serbia	Abdicated

Obrenović Dynasty

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Miloš Obrenović I March 18, 1780 - September 26, 1860	December 23, 1858 - September 26, 1860	Principality of Serbia	Abdicated
	Mihailo Obrenović III (first reign) September 16, 1823 - June 10, 1868	September 26, 1860 – June 10, 1868	Principality of Serbia	Assassinated in Košutnjak
	Milan Obrenović IV August 22, 1854 - February 11, 1901	June 10, 1868 – March 6, 1889	Principality of Serbia Kingdom of Serbia	Proclaimed King of Serbia.

Kingdom of Serbia (1882-1918)

Obrenović Dynasty

Picture	Name Born - Died	Reign	Territory	Notes
	Milan I August 22, 1854 - February 11, 1901	June 10, 1868 – March 6, 1889	Kingdom of Serbia	Abdicated
File:KraljAlexObrenovic.jpg	Aleksandar I 14 August 1876 - 11 June 1903	March 6, 1889 – June 11, 1903	Kingdom of Serbia	Assassinated with Queen Draga in coup d'état. End of Obrenović Dynasty.

Karađorđević Dynasty

For the continuation of this list, go to List of heads of state of Yugoslavia.

Notes

In 1918, Serbia became part of the newly formed Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes. Later that state changed name in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia (i.e. Kingdom of South Slavs). In that period (between World War I and World War II) the country was a parliamentary monarchy nominally ruled by the Karađorđević dynasty.

After World War II and the civil war Yugoslavia became a communist state, Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, ruled by Josip Broz Tito. After his death in 1980, the federation started a process of dissolution which finished in a series of civil wars in the early 1990s. Through the 1990s, Serbia and Montenegro comprised the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia, which was restructured in 2003 into a confederation called Serbia and Montenegro. The state union ended with Montenegro's separation in 2006. Currently Serbia is a parliamentary republic.

The present Head of the House of Karađorđević, who is heir to the Serbian throne, is HRH Crown Prince Aleksandar II.

See also

• List of rulers of Montenegro
• List of local rulers of Vojvodina
• List of Serbs

Notes

1. Entries bounded within parentheses are for reference only; for instance, the Roman numerals keep counts of Stefans and Lazars. They are not part of the common nomenclature.

Sources

• The genealogy and coats of arms of Serbian dynasties and feudal lords (Родословне таблице и грбови српских династија и властеле); editors Aleksa Ivić (1928), Dusan Spasić, Aleksandar Plavestra and Dusan Mrdjenović (1987/91); Bata, Belgrade, ISBN 86-7685-007-0 (in Serbian language).
• Serbian Rulers (Српски владари)
• Detailed List of Serbian Rulers
• John V.A. Fine Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans, Ann Arbor, 1987.
• The Catholic Encyclopedia (1907) article at http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/13732a.htm

• Serbian monarchs
• Lists of monarchs
• History of Serbia
• History of the Serbs
• Lists of rulers