Urošica

Saint Urošica
Fresco in the Visoki Dečani monastery
Native name	Стефан Урошица Немањић
Church	Serbian Orthodox
Personal details
Born	before 1285
Died	before 1316
Buried	Saint Achillius Church, Arilje (Serbia)
Nationality	Serb
Denomination	Eastern Christianity
Parents	Stefan Dragutin and Catherine of Hungary
Coat of arms
Sainthood
Feast day	November 11 [O.S. November 24]
Canonized	before 1378 by Serbian Orthodox Church

Urošica (Serbian: Урошица; fl. 1285 – before 1316) was a Serbian prince and Orthodox monk, a member of the Nemanjić dynasty. He was the younger son of Stefan Dragutin, King of Serbia 1272–1282 and Syrmia 1282–1316. Dragutin kept Syrmia after passing the rule to Stefan Milutin in 1282. Through mother Catherine of the Hungarian Árpád dynasty, the elder son Stefan Vladislav II was the Duke of Slavonia from 1292 and the King of Syrmia from 1316 until 1325. Urošica took monastic vows as Stefan (Стефан), and is venerated as a saint by the Serbian Orthodox Church on November 11 [O.S. November 24].

Urošica was the youngest of three children of Serbian King Stefan Dragutin and Catherine, a Hungarian princess.

There is a theory that Urošica and Urošic are two people.

Dragutin ruled from 1276 until he broke his leg while hunting and became ill in 1282, when the rule was passed to Dragutin's younger brother Stefan Milutin, while Dragutin kept Syrmia as King (1282–1316).

Ladislaus IV died in 1290 leaving no sons, and a civil war between rival candidates Andrew III of Hungary, and Charles Martel of Anjou started. Through mother Catherine of the Hungarian Árpád dynasty, brother Stefan Vladislav II received the duchy of Slavonia in 1292. In 1293, Vladislav married Constanza Morosini, a relative of Andrew III on his maternal side. Charles Martel was supported by Croatian nobleman Paul I Šubić of Bribir, who received the right to Gvozd and Neretva rivers after Charles had managed to assert his rule over parts of Croatia.