Stefan Vladislav II of Syrmia
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 Vladislav II was a 14th-century Serb royalty, King of Syrmia
Syrmia
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 (1316–1325) and claimant to the whole Serbia.

He was the son of Stefan Dragutin, who had ruled Serbia until 1282, when he became ill and abdicated, giving the superior rule to his younger brother Stefan Milutin. Dragutin continued to rule the royal domain of Syrmia, which was later succeeded by Stefan Vladislav.

Life

He was son of king Stephen Dragutin of Serbia and Hungarian
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 princess Catherine
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During Hungarian civil war of 1292 he has received province of Slavonia
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 from titular Hungarian king Charles Martel of Anjou
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 which has not controlled Slavonia. After the death of the last Arpad
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 king of Hungary, Andrew III, he was also a contestant for the Hungarian throne, through his mother. After king Dragutin died in 1316, Stephen Vladislav II started to rule the Syrmian state of his father, known at the time as the Kingdom of Syrmia, but the king of Serbia
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, Milutin, his uncle, defeated him and imprisoned him.

When Milutin died in 1321, the newly freed Vladislav got to rule the lands of his father, with the help of Hungarians and Bosnia
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 Šubić.

Tsar Michael Asen III of Bulgaria, newly in conflict with Vladislav's cousin Stefan Dečanski (successor of Milutin), started to support Vladislav as the rightful monarch of whole Serbia, but this support showed insufficient.

After having been beaten again by supporters of Stefan Dečanski, he retreated to Hungary in 1324. Vladislav II's sororal nephew Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia, then started to rule Vladislav's lands in Bosnia (Soli and Usora), and around Lower Syrmia
Syrmia
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 there were long battles between Serbs and Hungarians.

Stephen Vladislav II was married to Constanza Morosini
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Literature

  • Small encyclopedia "Sveznanje" published by "Narodno delo", Belgrade
    Belgrade
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    , in 1937 which is today in public domain
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    . This article is written from the point of view of that place and time and may not reflect modern opinions or recent discoveries.
  • Drago Njegovan, Prisajedinjenje Vojvodine Srbiji, Novi Sad, 2004.

See also

  • History of Serbia
    History of Serbia
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  • List of Serbian monarchs
  • Rulers of Vojvodina
    Rulers of Vojvodina
    This is a list of local rulers of Vojvodina. The list also include local rulers of Banat, Bačka and Srem, including parts of mentioned regions, which are not part of present-day Vojvodina, as well as other rulers of larger political units that had specific local ties to territory of present-day...

  • Syrmia
    Syrmia
    Syrmia is a fertile region of the Pannonian Plain in Europe, between the Danube and Sava rivers. It is divided between Serbia in the east and Croatia in the west....


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