Stefan Radoslav Стефан Радослав |
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King of all the Rascian and Travunian Lands | |
Stefan Radoslav
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Reign | 1228–1233 |
Coronation | Žiča |
Predecessor | Stefan Nemanjić |
Successor | Stefan Vladislav |
Born | ~1192 |
Died | after 1235 |
Burial | Studenica monastery |
Spouse | Anna Angelina Komnene Doukaina |
Issue | Dragoslav Jovan |
Serbian | Stefan Radoslav |
House | Nemanjić dynasty |
Father | Stefan Nemanjić |
Mother | Eudokia Angelina |
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Stefan Radoslav (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Радослав; ~1192 – after 1235), also known as Stephanos Doukas (Greek: Στέφανος Δούκας) was the King of Serbia from 1228 to 1233.
Stefan was the only known son of Stefan Nemanjić (r. 1196–1228) by his first wife Eudokia Angelina. His maternal grandparents were The Byzantine Emperor Alexios III Angelos (r. 1195–1203) and Euphrosyne Doukaina Kamaterina. He reportedly had two unnamed sisters, the first of whom married first the Albanian prince Dhimitër Progoni and secondly the Greco-Albanian lord Gregorios Kamonas, while the second married the sebastokrator Alexander Asen, whom George Acropolites identifies as a son of Tsar Ivan Asen I of Bulgaria (r. 1189–96). It is uncertain if his mother was Maria or Helena, respectively the first and second wife of Ivan Asen I. Alexander was the father of Kaliman II of Bulgaria (r. 1256).
According to the historian John Van Antwerp Fine, Jr., Eudokia was repudiated on grounds of adultery in c. 1200–01. Fine summarizes a passage of Niketas Choniates to state "She left on foot with only the clothes on her back". Eudokia sought refuge with her brother-in-law Vukan Nemanjić, Prince of Zeta. Vukan provided her with hospitality for a while and then arranged for her transportation to Durrës, where she boarded a Byzantine ship heading for Constantinople and returned safely to her father. This indicates Stefan Radoslav was born either in the 1190s or the early 1200s (decade).