Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia
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Stefan Vladislav I (Стефан Владислав I) (died after 1264) was Serbian king 1233/1234–1242, and a son of Stefan Prvovenčani and Eudokia Angelina. He overthrew his older half-brother, King Stefan Radoslav with help from his father-in-law, the Bulgarian emperor (tsar) Ivan Asen II, and assumed the Serbian throne after being crowned by his uncle, Serbia's Archbishop Saint Sava. In 1237 he transferred body of Saint Sava from Tărnovo, where he had died, to the monastery of Mileševa. After death of his father-in-law Ivan Asen II, during the Tatar invasion in Central Europe he was overthrown by his younger brother Stefan Uroš I. The new king may have allowed Stefan Vladislav to rule Zeta as governor, and in any case did not completely remove him from an active role in government.
By his marriage with Beloslava, daughter of Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria, Stefan Vladislav had the following children:
- Desa, a župan
- unnamed daughter, who married a Balkan nobleman.
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References
- Encyclopedia Sveznanje published by "Narodno delo", Belgrade, in 1937.
- John V.A. Fine Jr., The Late Medieval Balkans, Ann Arbor, 1987.de:Stefan Vladislav