21 Facts About Stefan Vladislav

Stefan Vladislav was the middle son of Stefan the First-Crowned of the Nemanjic dynasty, who ruled Serbia from 1196 to 1228.

Radoslav, the eldest son of Stefan the First-Crowned, was ousted by the Serbian nobility due to increasing Epirote influence through his marriage alliance to Theodore Komnenos Doukas; thus Vladislav became his successor.

Stefan Vladislav is celebrated as Saint Vladislav by the Serbian Orthodox Church.

Stefan Vladislav obtained the remains and buried them in the Mileseva monastery, which he had built intended to be his burial place.

Serbia was politically aligned with Bulgaria at the time, since Stefan Vladislav was married to Beloslava, the daughter of Ivan Asen II.

Stefan Vladislav secured Hum, a maritime province under attack by Hungarian crusaders.

Stefan Vladislav's parents were King Stefan the First-Crowned and Queen Eudokia.

Stefan Vladislav had two sisters, Komnena being the only one whose name is known.

King Stefan Vladislav the First-Crowned, who had become ill, took monastic vows and died in 1227, and Radoslav, the eldest son, became king; he was crowned at Zica by his uncle, Archbishop Sava.

Stefan Vladislav was unable to regain the kingdom, but eventually returned as a monk.

The revolt against Stefan Vladislav was unsuccessful, and Radoslav joined the court of Epirote ruler Manuel in Dyrrhachium.

However, to stop the conflict, which could become more serious, Stefan Vladislav was crowned king upon Radoslav's departure from Serbia.

Thanks to Sava, Stefan Vladislav married the daughter of Ivan Asen II.

Stefan Vladislav was respectfully buried at the Holy Forty Martyrs Church in Tarnovo.

The crusaders were pushed to the border, and Stefan Vladislav pursued them as far as the Cetina River, but there were no major encounters.

Some scholars have speculated that Stefan Vladislav accepted Bulgarian suzerainty, but this speculation has no evidence to support it, since no contemporary sources say that Stefan Vladislav recognized Asen as overlord of Serbia.

In 1235, Stefan Vladislav signed a treaty regarding trading privileges with Giovanni Dandolo, a representative of Ragusa.

The revolting nobility had chosen Uros as their candidate for king; from 1242 to spring 1243, a war for the throne was fought, which ended with Stefan Vladislav being forced to give up the crown in favour of Uros.

Uros was courteous towards Stefan Vladislav, gave him the administration of Zeta, with residence in Skadar.

Stefan Vladislav died around 1269, and was buried in Mileseva monastery.

Stefan Vladislav signed himself with the expanded title of his father: "King of All Rascian Lands, and Diocletia, and Dalmatia, and Travunia, and Zachumlia".