Belojević noble family

Belojević
Country	Serbian Principality
Estates	Travunia[1] (with Konavle) (hinterland of Dubrovnik and Boka Kotorska, with seat at Trebinje)[2]
Titles	County lord (Župan)
Founded	before 839
Final ruler	Čučimir
Dissolution	after 892, before 969
Ethnicity	Serb

Belojević (Serbian: pl. Белојевићи) was a Serbian noble family that served the first Serbian Principality (768–960). Beloje, the eponymous founder, was the lord of Travunia under Prince Vlastimir of Serbia (c. 836–850), though he may have had his position under preceding rulers Radoslav or Prosigoj (fl. 819–822). Vlastimir married his daughter to Krajina, the son of Beloje, and gives Krajina the title of Župan, sometime after the Bulgaro-Serb War (839–842).^[1] Krajina's descendants continue the rule of Travunia (hinterland of Dubrovnik and Boka Kotorska, with seat at Trebinje^[2]) under the Serbian crown; his son Hvalimir, and his son Čučimir. No more is known of the family after the De Administrando Imperio by Emperor Constantine VII (945–959). In 969, Serbia was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.

Members

• Beloje (before 839), lord of Trebinje
  • Krajina (fl. 847), married the daughter of Vlastimir in 847/848, becomes Župan of Travunia
    • Hvalimir (Serbian: Хвалимир, Greek: Φαλιμἑρης,^[3] Latin: Phalimer;^[4] late 9th century)
      • Čučimir (Greek: Τζουτζημέρης;^[3] first half of 10th century^[5])

See also

• Vlastimirović dynasty, ruled Serbia 768–969
• Vojislavljević dynasty, ruled Serbia 1010–1091, Duklja 1010–1043; Pomorje 1043–1148
• Vukanović dynasty, ruled Serbia 1091–1163, Rascia 1060–1163, Pomorje 1148–1163
• Pomorje
• Belojevići, in Stolac, Bosnia and Herzegovina (part of the family estate

References

1. Veselinovic, p. 24
2. Radonjić, pp. 109-110
3. "Sebraneʹ spisy", p. 759
4. Runciman 1988, p. 213
5. Grumel, p. 390

Sources

• Venance Grumel, La chronologie, Paris 1958, p. 390
• Constantine Porphyrogenitus, De Administrando Imperio, edited by Gy. Moravcsik and translated by R. J. H. Jenkins, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington D. C., 1993
• P. Radonjić, „Velaj“, u: Srpski biografski rečnik, II tom, ur. Čedomir Popov, Novi Sad 2008, str. 109-110.
• Steven Runciman (1988). The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and his Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-35722-7.
• Andrija Veselinović, Radoš Ljušić, „Srpske dinastije“, Novi Sad, 2001. ISBN 86-83639-01-0 (str. 24)