Kaznac
Kaznac (Serbian Cyrillic: казнац) 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] It was the equivalent of camerarius (chamberlain).
In the Dečani chrysobulls, King Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–1331) mentioned that the court dignitaries present at the Dečani assembly were the kaznac, tepčija, vojvoda, sluga and stavilac.[4]
The title of veliki kaznac was later transformed into protovestijar.
List of title holders
Serbia
- Vlado, from Matjan tribe, former Byzantine stratiot who became kaznac of the Serbian Kingdom between 1274 and 1279[5]
- 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).[6][7]
- 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)
- Gradislav Borilović, served Stefan Dušan.
- Pribac, served Stefan Dušan (r. 1331-1355).
- Bogdan (fl. 1363), kaznac in the service of Emperor Uroš V
See also
- chamberlain
- Serbian noble titles
References
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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
- ↑ 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)
- ↑ Srđan Šarkić (1996). Srednjovekovno srpsko pravo. Matica srpska. p. 66.
- ↑ 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
- ↑ Lee 1906, p. 314
- ↑ Zprávy o zasedání královské českē společnosti nauk (1889), p. 128