Stefan Vladislav I of Serbia
Stefan Vladislav I (
Serbian: Стефан 'ладислав I) (died after
1264) was
Serbian king from
1233/
4 to
1243, and a son of King
Stefan I Prvovenčani and Anna, the daughter of
Enrico Dandolo,
Doge of Venice.
He overthrew his older half-brother, King
Stefan Radoslav with help from his father-in-law
Ivan Asen II of Bulgaria. He assumed the Serbian throne after being crowned by his uncle, Serbia's Archbishop
Saint Sava. In
1237 he transferred the body of
Saint Sava from
Tărnovo, where he had died, to the monastery of
Mileševa.
After the death of his father-in-law Ivan Asen II, during the invasion of
Batu Khan in
Central Europe Stefan Vladislav 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.
* Encyclopedia
Sveznanje published by "Narodno delo",
Belgrade, in
1937.
* John V.A. Fine Jr.,
The Late Medieval Balkans, Ann Arbor, 1987.
