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Stefan Dragutin (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Драгутин, Hungarian: Dragutin István; /!\ c. 1244 /!\ – 12 March 1316) was King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282. From 1282, he ruled a separate kingdom which included northern Serbia, and (from 1284) the neighboring Hungarian banates (or border provinces), for which he was unofficially styled "King of Syrmia".[1][2][3][4][5]
He was the eldest son of King Stefan Uroš I of Serbia and Queen Helen. Dragutin married Catherine of Hungary, likely after his father concluded a peace treaty with her grandfather, Béla IV of Hungary, in 1268. By 1271, he received the title of "young king" in recognition of his right to succeed his father. He rebelled against his father, and with Hungarian assistance, forced him to abdicate in 1276.
Dragutin abandoned Uroš I's centralizing policy and ceded large territories to his mother in appanage. After a riding accident, he abdicated in favor of his brother, Milutin, in 1282, but he retained the northern regions of Serbia along the Hungarian border. Two years later, his brother-in-law, Ladislaus IV of Hungary, granted him three banates—Mačva (or Sirmia ulterior), Usora and Soli. He was the first Serbian monarch to rule Belgrade. With his brother's support, he also occupied the Banate of Braničevo in 1284 or 1285.
In theory, Dragutin was a vassal both to his brother (for his Serbian territories), and to the Hungarian monarchs (for the four banates), but in practice he ruled his realm as an independent ruler from the 1290s. His conflicts with Milutin developed into open war in 1301, and he frequently raided the neighboring Hungarian lords from 1307. Most of the Serbian noblemen supported Dragutin, but he was forced to make peace with Milutin after Milutin's mercenaries routed him in 1311 or 1312. Before his death, he entered a monastery and died as the monk Teoktist. On the list of Serbian saints, Dragutin is venerated on 12 November or 30 October (Old Style and New Style dates).
-http://fmg.ac/Projects/MedLands/SERBIA.htm#StefanDragutindied1316
1. STEFAN DRAGUTIN (-12 Mar 1316, bur Ras). The primary source which confirms his parentage has not yet been identified. He was appointed associate-king [Mladi Kralj] of Serbia by his father in 1271. He rebelled against his father, whom he defeated with Hungarian support near Gacko, and succeeded in 1276 as STEFAN DRAGUTIN King of Serbia. He immediately granted his mother a large appanage including Zeta and Trebinje[186]. He fell from his horse and broke his leg in 1282, and possibly for health reasons abdicated in favour of his younger brother at a council convoked at Deževo. In exchange, he was granted a large appanage in northern and western Serbia including the mining town of Rudnik[187]. In 1284, his brother-in-law László IV King of Hungary appointed him Ban of Mačva, the territory bordering his Serbian appanage[188]. He captured Braničevo from Drman and Kudelin, brothers who were probably Bulgarians of Kuman origin, in 1291[189]. Rivalry with his younger brother intensified towards the end of the century, and by 1300 Dragutin was preparing to attack. War lasted until 1312 or 1314. In the meantime, Dragutin was also pulled into the Hungarian civil war following the death of András III King of Hungary in 1301, in order to protect his Hungarian territories. He proposed his son as a rival candidate for the Hungarian throne. King Stefan Dragutin allegedly slept regularly in a coffin towards the end of his life to prepare himself for death, becoming a monk as THEOKTIST near the end[190]. A document records the death of “Stephanus Dragutin, Serbiæ rex” dated 12 Mar 1316[191].
m ( [1267/68] ) KATALIN of Hungary, daughter of ISTVÁN V King of Hungary & his wife Elisabeth [ née --- ] of the Kumans. Pachymeres records that "cralem Serbiæ Stephanum Uresim…primogenitus" was already married to "regis Pannoniæ filiam" when Emperor Mikhael VIII proposed the betrothal of his second daughter to Stefan Uroš I's second son[192]. Pachymeres records the marriage of "germani sui maioris Stephani" and "sororem defunctæ Augustæ, matris Augusti iunioris…filia regis Ungariæ"[193]. The primary source which confirms her name has not yet been identified. Her marriage was probably agreed as part of the terms for her future father-in-law's release from captivity by the Hungarians in 1268[194].
Stefan Dragutin & his wife had three children:
His marriage in about 1268 with Katarina, daughter of Stephen V of Hungary and Elizabeth the Cuman, produced three children:[1][2]
http://genealogy.euweb.cz/balkan/balkan5.html
One Zupan Zavida, whose 4 sons divided Serbia up and fought with each other:
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Raška, Serbia
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March 12, 1316
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