Grgur Golubić

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Grgur Golubić - Caesar Gregory
Гргур
Caesar of Polog
Wife Todora[1]

Issue

Possibly Voisava,[2] the mother of Skanderbeg
Detail
Titles and styles
caesar of Polog
Noble family Branković
Father Branko Mladenović
Born before 1327
Died before 1398
Religion Orthodox Christianity

Grgur Golubić, known as Caesar Gregory (Serbian Cyrillic: Гргур Голубић, кесар Гргур; fl. 1347-1361) was a Serbian nobleman during the Serbian Empire of Stephen Dušan (r. 1331-1355) and Stephen Uroš V (r. 1355-1371). He held the Polog region with the title of Caesar. Grgur was the son of sebastocrator Branko Mladenović, the deputy of Ochrid under Emperor Dušan, thus part of the Branković noble family.

Life

Grgur was the second son of sebastocrator Branko Mladenović, the deputy of Ochrid under Emperor Dušan (fl. 1346). His older brother was Nikola Radonja (d. 1399), the younger was Vuk Branković (1345-1397). His cousin was magnate Nikola Altomanović (fl. 1348-1395), whose mother Ratoslava was Grgur's paternal aunt. His grandfather was Mladen (d. 1326), a military commander of Kings Stephen Uroš II Milutin (r. 1282–1321) and Stephen Uroš III Dečanski (r. 1321–1331). Mladen and his brother Nikola were the first known of the House of Branković, which according to royal edicts drew descent from an older aristocratic family that had served the Nemanjić dynasty, with the main task of war, and held the hereditary lands of the Drenica-region in Kosovo.

He is mentioned as a caesar in a letter from Pope Innocentius VI to the Emperor dated 1347.[3][4] Grgur is mentioned in charters of Dušan dated 1348-54 for the Sveti arhanđeli monastery in Prizren, which points to that Grgur held a region around Prizren.[5] Grgur and Bishop Grigorije of Devoll founded the Zaum monastery (Church of the Holy Virgin Zaumska, Bogorodica Zahumska) on Lake Ohrid near Zaum, to which he brought the cult of the Virgin of Zahumlje (hence its name).[6]

References

  1. ↑ Petrovski, pp. 11-12: "Во двата случаја-било да се работи за Волкашиновиот непознат благородник Гргур или пак за Гргур Бранковик, во изворите е зачувано изворно известие, според кое, сопругата на Гргур се викала Тодора." - "In both cases, whether it is unknown noble man Grgur or Grgur Branković, there are authentic sources for name of Grgur's wife, whose name was Todora."
  2. ↑ Petrovski, p. 9: "Доколку ја прифатиме оваа варијанта, според која Бранковиките биле господари на/во Полог до почетког на последната деценија од XIV век, во тој случај произлегува дека Воисава била керка на Гргур или пак, можеби на Вук Бранковик." - "If we accept this postulation, according to which Brankovići were lords of/in Polog until the beginning of the last decade of the 14th century, in that case it is obvious that Voisava was daughter of Grgur, or maybe Vuk Branković."
  3. ↑ Sima Ćirković i Božidar Ferjančić, Pisma pape Inočentija VI: "Marta 1347. godine papa Kliment VI uputio je pismo srpskom caru, ali i nekim uglednim ljudima na njegovom dvoru - protovestijaru Nikoli Bući iz Kotora, kesaru Grguru Golubiću,"
  4. ↑ Byzantinische Zeitschrift, Volume 64, p. 207: "Die Cäsaren wären: Grgur Golubic (vor 1347)"
  5. ↑ Sima Ćirković i Božidar Ferjančić, Gosti Gore Atoske: "U carstvu Stefana Dušana nalazimo i ugledne velikaše koji su imali visoku vizantijsku titulu kesara. Krenućemo od Grgura Golubića, koji se s tim činom (Grgur Golubić, kesar kraljevine Raške) pominje u pismu pape Inoćentija VI iz marta 1347. godine. U osnivačkoj povelji cara Stefana Dušana za manastir Sveti arhanđeli kod Prizrena (između 1348. i 1354) zabeležen je i dar kesara Grgura (čovek Damjan kamatnik koji godišnje treba da daje 18 lisičjih koža), na osnovu čega bi se moglo pretpostaviti da su se posedi pomenutog kesara nalazili oko Prizrena."
  6. ↑ Dečani i vizantijska umetnost sredinom 14 veka: Medjunarodni naučni skup povodom 650 godina manastira Dečana, 1985. Vojislav J. Djuric, Volume 13

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