Stefan Vukanović Nemanjić

For the 12th-century Serbian royalty, see Stefan Vukan.

Stefan Vukanović
Fresco of Stefan, at the Visoki Dečani.
Burial	Morača monastery
Dynasty	Nemanjić
Father	Vukan Nemanjić
Religion	Roman Catholicism

Stefan Vukanović Nemanjić (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Вукановић Немањић) was a Serbian prince, the son of Grand Prince Vukan Nemanjić (r. 1202-1204) and the nephew of Grand Prince and King Stefan the First-Crowned (r. 1196–1217;–1228). He built the Morača monastery.

Life

Stefan was the son of Grand Prince Vukan, who was self-styled "King of Duklja, Dalmatia, Travunia, Toplica and Hvosno" (1195), and ruled Serbia briefly in 1202-1204. Stefan Vukanović, titled knez ("prince") had two brothers, the eldest Đorđe, who was the Grand Prince of Zeta (1208–1216), and youngest Dmitar, a župan (county lord) and monk. In 1252, Stefan Vukanović built the Morača monastery.

Morača monastery

Main article: Morača monastery

The Morača monastery, Stefan Vukanović's endowment.

Stefan Vukanović built the monastery by the Morača river, in the heartlands of Duklja (Zeta, in modern south-central Montenegro). It was founded in 1252, during the rule of King Stefan Uroš I (r. 1243–1276), on the right banks of the Morača, in the wide part of the Morača canyon, called Donja Morača. It overlooks the river from 40 metres above sea level. Nearby is the Svetigora waterfall, regarded the finest waterfall of Montenegro.

Ancestors of Stefan Vukanović Nemanjić
16. Uroš I of Rascia 8. Zavida 17. Anna Diogene 4. Stefan Nemanja 2. Vukan Nemanjić 5. Anastasija 1. Stefan Vukanović 3. Unknown

See also

• Nemanjić family tree

Sources

• Aleksić, Vladimir, Milić, Dragana, Živković, Vojislav (2022): „Grand knez Stephen Vukanović and the Morača Monastery“. Istraživanja - Journal of Historical Researches 33, Novi Sad, 24-39.