| Stephen Vladislav II | |
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| King of Srem
By Grace of Jesus Christ God, Zhupan and King of the Serbs |
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| Stephen Vladislav II, Decani | |
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| Reign | 1316-1325 |
| Coronation | 1316 |
| Predecessor | Stefan Dragutin |
| Successor | None |
| Spouse | Constanza Morosini |
| House | House of Nemanjić |
| Father | Stefan Dragutin |
| Mother | Catherine of Hungary |
| Born | 1280 |
| Died | 1325 |
| Religion | Serbian Orthodox |
Stephen Vladislav II (Serbian: Стефан Владислав II, Latin: Stephanus Ladislaus II ; l. 1280-1325) was a 14th-century Serb royalty, King of Syrmia (1316–1325) and claimant to the whole Serbia.
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 succeeded by Stefan Vladislav.
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He was son of king Stephen Dragutin of Serbia and Hungarian princess Catherine.
During Hungarian civil war of 1292 he has received province of Slavonia from titular Hungarian king Charles Martel of Anjou which has not controlled Slavonia. After the death of the last Arpad king of Hungary, Andrew III, he was also a contestant for the Hungarian throne, through his mother. After king Dragutin died in 1316, Stephen Vladislav II started to rule the Syrmian state of his father, known at the time as the Kingdom of Syrmia, but the king of Serbia, 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 Hungarians and Bosnian ban Šubić.
Tsar Michael Asen III of Bulgaria, newly in conflict with Vladislav's cousin Stefan Dečanski (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 Hungary in 1324. Vladislav II's sororal nephew Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia, then started to rule Vladislav's lands in Bosnia (Soli and Usora), and around Lower Syrmia there were long battles between Serbs and Hungarians.
Stephen Vladislav II was married to Constanza Morosini.
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| Preceded by Stephen Dragutin |
King of Syrmia 1316–1325 |
Succeeded by annexation Stephen Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia as King of All Serbia |
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