Belojević was a Serbia

Serbia

Serbia , officially the Republic of Serbia , is a landlocked country located at the crossroads of Central and Southeast Europe, covering the southern part of the Carpathian basin and the central part of the Balkans...

n noble family

Serbian nobility

Serbian nobility was the privileged order or class of Serbia in the Middle Ages and Early Modern times.The first nobles of greater status was those in the 9th and 10th century, who were connected to the royal family by marriage. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the nobility greatly expanded, and in...

 that served the first Serbian Principality (768-960). Beloje, the eponymous founder, was a lord in Travunia

Travunia

Travunia was a medieval region, administrative unit and principality, which was part of Medieval Serbia , and in its last years, the Bosnian Kingdom . The county became hereditary in a number of noble houses, often kin to the ruling dynasty. The region came under Ottoman rule in 1482...

under Prince Vlastimir of Serbia (ca. 836-850, he may have had his position under Radoslav

Radoslav of Serbia

Radoslav was a Serbian Prince who ruled over the Serbs from 800 to 822, he succeeded his father Višeslav who united the Serbian tribes, resulting in the formation of Raška in the 8th century...

 or Prosigoj

Prosigoj

Prosigoj was a 9th-century Serbian Prince that ruled the Serbian Principality from 822 to 836.-Biography:He was the son of Radoslav. Prosigoj or his father was the ruler of Serbia during the uprisings of Ljudevit Posavski against the Franks...

 as well, fl. 819-822). Vlastimir marries his daughter to Krajina

Krajina Belojević

Krajina Belojević was the župan of Travunia, an administrative unit of the Principality of Serbia, in the 9th century. In 847/848, not long after the three-year Bulgarian–Serbian War in which Prince Vlastimir of Serbia Krajina Belojević was the župan of Travunia, an administrative unit of the...

, the son of Beloje, and gives Krajina the title of Župan, sometime after the Bulgaro-Serb War (839-842). Krajina's descendants continue the rule of Travunia (hinterland of Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik

Dubrovnik is a Croatian city on the Adriatic Sea coast, positioned at the terminal end of the Isthmus of Dubrovnik. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations on the Adriatic, a seaport and the centre of Dubrovnik-Neretva county. Its total population is 42,641...

 and Boka Kotorska, with seat at Trebinje

Trebinje

Trebinje is the southernmost municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity and is located in southeastern Herzegovina, some from the Adriatic Sea....

) under the Serbian crown; his son Hvalimir, and his son Čučimir. No more is known of the family after the De Administrando Imperio

De Administrando Imperio

De Administrando Imperio is the Latin title of a Greek work written by the 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII. The Greek title of the work is...

by Emperor Constantine VII

Constantine VII

Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 913 to 959...

 (945-959). In 969, Serbia was conquered by the Byzantine Empire.

Members

• Beloje
  Beloje of Trebinje
  Beloje was the Župan of Travunia in the early 9th century, a fief of the Serbian Principality under Prince Vlastimir . He may have had the position under Vlastimir's predecessors; Radoslav or Prosigoj...
  
   (before 839), local lord of Trebinje
  Trebinje
  Trebinje is the southernmost municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity and is located in southeastern Herzegovina, some from the Adriatic Sea....
  
  
  • Krajina
    Krajina Belojević
    Krajina Belojević was the župan of Travunia, an administrative unit of the Principality of Serbia, in the 9th century. In 847/848, not long after the three-year Bulgarian–Serbian War in which Prince Vlastimir of Serbia Krajina Belojević was the župan of Travunia, an administrative unit of the...
    
    , married the daughter of Vlastimir in 847/848, becomes Župan of Travunia
    • Hvalimir 
      • Čučimir 

See also

• Vlastimirović dynasty, ruled Serbia 768-969
• Vojislavljević dynasty, ruled Serbia 1010-1091, Duklja 1010-1043; Pomorje 1043-1148
• Vukanović dynasty, ruled Serbia 1091-1163, Rascia 1060-1163, Pomorje 1148-1163
• Pomorje
  Pomorje
  Pomorje or Primorje is a term used in historical contexts to describe one of the two geographical divisions that constituted Serbia in the Middle Ages...
  
  

Sources

• Constantine Porphyrogenitus
  Constantine VII
  Constantine VII Porphyrogennetos or Porphyrogenitus, "the Purple-born" was the fourth Emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire, reigning from 913 to 959...
  
  , De Administrando Imperio
  De Administrando Imperio
  De Administrando Imperio is the Latin title of a Greek work written by the 10th-century Eastern Roman Emperor Constantine VII. The Greek title of the work is...
  
  , edited by Gy. Moravcsik and translated by R. J. H. Jenkins, Dumbarton Oaks Center for Byzantine Studies, Washington D. C., 1993
• Andrija Veselinović, Radoš Ljušić, „Srpske dinastije“, Novi Sad, 2001. ISBN 86-83639-01-0 (str. 24)
• P. Radonjić, „Velaj“, u: Srpski biografski rečnik, II tom, ur. Čedomir Popov, Novi Sad 2008, str. 109-110.
• Venance Grumel, La chronologie, Paris 1958, p. 390