Vuk Kosača
| Vuk Kosača | |
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| Coat of arms |
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| Holding(s) | left of the Drina, around Rogatica |
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Issue
Vlatko Hran | |
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Titles and styles
voivode | |
| Family | Kosača |
| Died |
1359 "northern Serbia" |
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity |
Vuk Kosača (died 1359) was a 14th-century military commander (voivode) of Dušan the Mighty, the Emperor of Serbia (r. 1331–1355).[1] He is the founding father of a medieval Herzegovinian noble family known as the Kosačas, that would later rule a semi-independent realm under the Bosnian crown.[1] His lands were located left of the Drina, around Rogatica.[1]
Vuk was a military commander in the army of Tsar Dušan the Mighty[1] during the campaigns in the southern Balkans in the late 1340s, in specific Epirus and Thessaly.
According to Mavro Orbini,[1] during a hunt in northern Serbia, he accidentally killed Branko Rastislalić, a fellow nobleman of the House of Rastislalić, which held lands of northeast Serbia.[1] Vuk, who was accountable for the death, fled to Hungary.[1] He subsequently made peace with the Rastislalićs and returned to the Serbian court.[1] He was however, killed in 1359, when relatives avenged the death of Branko.[1]
He had two sons, Vlatko and Hran Vuković.
References
- Charles Cawley, Medieval Lands, A prosopography of medieval European noble and royal families: Cawley, Charles, Bosnia & Herzegovina, Foundation for Medieval Genealogy, retrieved August 2012,
- Gordana Tomović, Oblasni gospodari u 14. veku, p. 2 (Serbian)
- Arheološko društvo Jugoslavije, 1968, Arheološki pregled, Volumes 10-11, p. 96, the University of California