Petrislav ( sr-Cyrl, Петрислав; fl. 1060–1083) was the
Prince
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of ''
Raška'' (; later anachronism for the
Grand Principality of Serbia
The Grand Principality of Serbia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Великожупанска Србија, Velikožupanska Srbija, separator=" / "), also known by the anachronistic exonym Raška (region), Rascia ( sr-Cyrl-Latn, Рашка, Raška, separator=" ...
), a province under influence of the
Grand Principality of Doclea, from 1060 to 1083. He was appointed to govern Serbia by his father, Grand Prince
Mihailo I, who had reunited Serbia (the ''Zagora'' region of the former early medieval
Serbian Principality) into the Serbian realm after decades of Byzantine annexation.
Background
Bosnia
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,
Zahumlje
Zachlumia or Zachumlia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Zahumlje, Захумље, ), also Hum, was a medieval principality located in the modern-day regions of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia (today parts of Bosnia and Herzegovina and Croatia, r ...
, and ''Rascia'' (i.e. Serbia) never were incorporated into an integrated state with
Doclea.
Each principality had its own nobility and institutions, simply requiring a member of the royal family to rule as Prince or Duke.
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Life
Petrislav was the last son of Mihailo I and his Greek second wife.[
Mihailo I reconquered Serbia from the Byzantines between 1060 and 1074.][ Mihailo I died in 1081, and ]Constantine Bodin
Constantine Bodin ( Bulgarian and , ''Konstantin Bodin''; 1072–1101) was a medieval king and the ruler of Duklja, the most powerful Serbian principality of the time, from 1081 to 1101, succeeding his father, Mihailo Vojislavljević ( 10 ...
succeeded as Prince.[ By 1085, the Vojislavljević brothers suppressed the revolt in the '']župa
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'' of Zeta, staged by their cousins, the sons of Radoslav
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. Constantine Bodin ruled unchallengedly.
He was succeeded by his two sons, Vukan and Marko, in 1083.[
]
References
Sources
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*Curta, Florin (2006). ''Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500-1250''. Cambridge University Press. .
* Ćorović, Vladimir, ''Istorija srpskog naroda'', Book I, (In Serbian
Electric Book, RastkoElectronic Book, Antikvarneknjige (Cyrillic)
**Drugi Period
''Pokrštavanje Južnih Slovena''
**''The Serbs'', , . Wiley-Blackwell, 2004
Google Books
*Tibor Živković, ''Portreti srpskih vladara'' (IX—XII), Beograd
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, 2006 (), p. 11
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