Vukoslavić noble family
Serbian noble family
The Vukoslavić family (Serbian: Вукославић) was a Serbian noble family that held the Petrus krajište (military frontier administrative unit), located around Paraćin, in the 14th century.
History
According to Mavro Orbin (1601), Crep, a župan of Serbian king Stefan Dečanski (r. 1322–1331), had held territory in Trebinje, Gacko and Rudine and was killed in battle at Trebinje by the Branivojević family of Hum. This happened some time between 1328 and 1331, and Crep's son, župan Vukoslav, took his family and part of the population to the eastern part of the Serbian lands, and settled in the desert of Petrus some time between 1331 and 1346. Vukoslav and his sons Crep and Držman built a fortress at the Baba mountain and a church dedicated to the Holy Theotokos in the village of Lešje/Leštije, in their vlastelinstvo (feudal domain). Vukoslav was thus given a province (oblast) that connected Pomoravlje (Ćuprija and Paraćin) with the lower part of the Timok Valley over Čestobrodice, by Emperor Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331–1355). In the coming decades, the feudal domain economically expanded. In the Hilandar charter of 1360 by emperor Uroš V (r. 1355–1371), Vukoslav's donations to Hilandar were confirmed. The donations included his endowment church, the villages of Leštije, Mutnica Donja, Brestnica, Zubarije, Nevidovo in Zastruma, and horses, sheep, swine, in order to make that monastery domain economically independent. This shows that his feudal domain was rich, also in population.
The Vukoslavić domain was recognized by Lazar of Moravian Serbia, and Lazar and Crep became near friends, with Lazar calling him his brother and building the Ravanica Monastery in the province of Petrus in 1375–1377.
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