Nikola Altomanović ( sr-Cyrl, Никола Алтомановић; died after 1395) was a 14th-century
Serbian župan of the
House of Vojinović. He ruled the areas from
Rudnik, over
Polimlje,
Podrinje
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, east
Herzegovina
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with
Trebinje
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, reaching as far as
Konavle and
Dračevica, neighboring the
Republic of Dubrovnik. He was defeated and
blinded in
Užice
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(
fortress Užice) in 1373 by a coalition of his Serbian and Bosnian royals neighbors supported by the
king of Hungary
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.
Biography
His father was
Altoman Vojinović, a
vojvod in
Zeta
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. In 1363, Nikola's uncle
Vojislav Vojinović was killed and Nikola used his uncle's death to gain a piece of his land. He allied himself with
Lazar Hrebeljanović against King
Vukašin Mrnjavčević and they managed to persuade Uroš to support them. However, after Lazar pulled out at the critical moment they were defeated at Kosovo in 1369.
In 1373, a military alliance against Nikola was created, which included Bosnian Ban
Tvrtko I Kotromanić, Zetan Ruler
Đurađ I Balšić, Mačvan Prince
Nikola Gorjanski, and Hungarian King
Ludovik I. In the same year, they battled against Nikola and Nikola lost, thus his territory was split between Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović of Serbia, Đurađ I Balšić of Zeta, and Ban Tvrtko I Kotromanić of Bosnia.
In fall of 1373, after the Serbian defeat against the Ottomans at the
Battle of Maritsa he partitioned some lands with
Lazar of Serbia
Lazar Hrebeljanović ( sr-cyr, Лазар Хребељановић; ca. 1329 – 15 June 1389) was a medieval List of Serbian monarchs, Serbian ruler who created the largest and most powerful state on the territory of the disintegrated Serbia ...
.
Last time he was mentioned as still alive in 1395.
Istorijska biblioteka: Nikola Altomanović
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External links
Istorijska biblioteka: Nikola Altomanović
(in Serbian)
14th-century Serbian nobility
Vojinović noble family
People of the Serbian Empire
Year of birth missing
Year of death missing
Medieval Serbian military leaders
Medieval Serbian magnates
14th-century soldiers
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