Balkan 16

The Brankovici

This family stemmed from one Branko Mladenovic, a Serbian official in Ochrid 1346; he had issue:

A1. Vuk Brankovic, Knez of Raska-Kosovo, +in exile ca 1398; m.ca 1371 Maria Lazarevic (+1426)
- B1. Djuradj Vukovic, Duke of Raska (1427-56) and Albania, *ca 1375, +Semendria 26.12.1456; 1m: NN; 2m: Serbia 26.12.1414 Jerina Kantakouzene (+1457)
  - C1. [2m.] Todor, *1415, +ca 1429
  - C2. [2m.] Grgur (Gregory), *ca 1424/25, +as the monk Germanos at Chilandari Monastery, Mt.Athos 16/17.10.1459, he was blinded on the orders of Sultan Murad II on 8.5.1441; m.Jelisaveta N
    - D1. [illegitimate] Vuk Grgurevic, a Hungarian general, +1485; m.Varvara Frangepan, Css of Veglia
  - C3. [2m.] Stefan "the Blind", Despot of Raska (1458-IV.1459), exiled from Serbia 1459, a saint of the Serbian church, *ca 1425/26, +Belgrado Castle, Fruili 9.10.1476; m.Skutari 1461 Angelina Araniti (+in Hungary 1516), dau.of George Komnenos Ariantes
    - D2. Jovan, Despot of Raitzen, *ca 1465, +1502; m.Jelena Jaksic (+after 1529)
      - E1. Marija, +1540; m.before 1509 Ct Ferdinand Frangepan (+1527)
      - E2. Jelena, +of strangulation before 1546/after 1552; m.1530 Peter IV Rares, Lord of Siebenbuergen and the Moldau (+X.1546)
      - E3. Hanna, +2.2.1578; 1m: Fiodor Sanguszko, Marshal of Volynia (*ca 1500, +XI.1547); 2m: 1553 Pr Mikolaj Zbarazski (+1574)
      - E4. Maria Magdalena, +after 13.7.1571; 1m: 1525-35 Pr Jan Wisniowiecki (+ca 1542); 2m: before 1546 Pr Alexander Czartoryski (+before 13.7.1571)
    - D3. Marija, *Ochrid 1466, +Casale 27.8.1495; m.Innsbruck 1485 Mgve Bonifacio III of Montferrat (*13.6.1424 +31.1.1494)
    - D4. Milica, *ca 1474, +of the plague 1554; m.Neagoe Bassarab, Lord of Wallachia
  - C4. [2m.] Lazar III, Despot of Raska (24.12.1456-20.6.1458), *1421/27, +20.1/6.1458; m.Semendria 1446 Jelena Palaiologina (*ca 1430, +as the nun Hypomone on the island of Leukas 7.11.1473), dau.of Thomas Palaiologos, Despot of the Peloponnese
    - D1. Marija, *1447, +in Hungary 1499; m.1459 Stjepan Tomasevic, King of Bosnia (+1463)
    - D2. Jerina; m.Giovanni Castriota, Duca di San Pietro
    - D3. Milica, +1464; m.Dubrovnik 1463 Leonardo Tocco, Cte di Zante, Cephalonia and Leucadia
  - C5. [1m.] Jelena
  - C6. [2m.] Maria-Mara, *ca 1406/10, +Ježevo (now Daphni) nr Mount Athos 14.9.1487, bur The monastery of the Theotokos at Kosinica nr Drama; m.Adrianople 4.9.1433 Sultan Murad II of the Ottoman Empire (+Adrianople II.1451)
  - C7. [2m.] Katarina, *1418/19, +Strumica ca 1490, bur at Konča nr Strumica, Macedonia; m.20.4.1434 Gf Ulrich III von Cilli und Ortenburg (+assassinated by Ladislas Hunyadi in Belgrade 9.11.1456)
- B2. Grgur, +as a monk 1408
- B3. Lazar, +beheaded nr Adrianople 1410
A2. Grgur, +ca 1398
A3. Nikola, +as a monk after 1365; m.ca 1350 Jelena Mrnjavcevic
A4. Teodora; m.Gjergj Thopia, Pr of Durazzo (+1392)

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