Kaznac

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Kaznac was a court title of the state employee in medieval Bosnia and Serbia who was in charge for the treasury in the territory under his jurisdiction — kaznačina (Serbian Cyrillic: Казначина).[1][2] The name of the title is derived from Serbo-Croatian word kazna (English: penalty).[3]

List of title holders

Serbia

  • Vlado, from Matjan tribe, former Byzantine stratiot who became kaznac of the Serbian Kingdom between 1274 and 1279[4]
  • Mrnjan (fl. 1280-1289), served King Stefan Uroš I and his wife, Queen Helen of Anjou at the court at Trebinje (In the royal province of Travunia).[5][6]
  • Miroslav, served Stefan Milutin
  • Jovan Dragoslav (fl. 1315), founder of Church of Virgin Hodegetria
  • Baldovin (fl. 1325-1333), served King Stefan Uroš III (r. 1321-1331)
  • Pribac, served Stefan Dušan (r. 1331-1355)

See also

References

  1. ↑ Florida State University. Center for Slavic and East European Studies (1970). The Florida State University slavic papers, Volumes 4-5. Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Florida State University. p. 112. Retrieved 26 March 2012. "A kaznacina is headed by a Kaznac who is a state employee, representative of the state authority in the kaznacina" 
  2. ↑ Dragoljub: zabavan i poucan tjednik, Volume 2. 1868. p. 715. Retrieved 26 March 2012. "kaznac, koji se pominje u srbskih i bosanskih listinah sa značenjem praefectus" 
  3. ↑ Florida State University. Center for Slavic and East European Studies (1970). The Florida State University slavic papers, Volumes 4-5. Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Florida State University. p. 112. Retrieved 26 March 2012. "He also inflicts penalties, hence his title kazna-penalty in Serbo-Croat language)" 
  4. ↑ Šufflay, Milan; St. Stanojević (1925), H. Barić, ed., Srbi i Arbanasi : njihova simbioza u srednjem vijeku, Istorijska Serija (in Serbian) (Biblioteka Arhiva za Arbanasku Starinu, Jezik i Etnologiju ed.), Belgrade: Seminar za Arbanasku Filologiju, p. 47, OCLC 249799501 
  5. ↑ Lee (1906), p. 314
  6. ↑ Zprávy o zasedání královské českē společnosti nauk (1889), p. 128
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