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Encyclopedia > Archont Petar
Lead stamp of Archont Petar (9th century), The Holy Virgin Mary with the Christ Child (left) and inscription in Greek "+ Petar archont of Dioklia AMIN" (right).
Lead stamp of Archont Petar (9th century), The Holy Virgin Mary with the Christ Child (left) and inscription in Greek "+ Petar archont of Dioklia AMIN" (right).

Archont Petar (Predimir) (ca. 930 - ca. 980) was the Prince of Duklja and Travunia during ca. 900. He was one of the first rulers of Duklja. Image File history File links Arhpetar. ... Image File history File links Arhpetar. ... As a means of recording the passage of time the 9th century was that century that lasted from 801 to 900. ... The term prince (the female form is princess), from the Latin root princeps, when used for a member of the highest aristocracy, has several fundamentally different meanings — one generic, and several types of titles. ... Duklja according to De administrando imperio. ... Travunia in the 9th century, according to De administrando imperio Travunia (Travunija, Travunja; Latin: Terbounia) was a medieval Slavic realm centered at Trebinje in todays eastern Herzegovina (modern day Bosnia and Herzegovina and Montenegro), and southern Dalmatia (modern day Republic of Croatia). ...


Višeslavić

He was the grandson of the Serbian ruler Višeslav.

  • Višeslav
    • Mutimir
    • Strojimir
    • Gojnik
      • Petar (Predimir)

Source: De Administrando Imperio, chapter 32; Croats and Serbs by Dominik Mandić, chapter 5. ViÅ¡eslav was a Serbian prince who lived from 780 AD to 814 AD. ViÅ¡eslav was the son of Ratimir. ... Knez Mutimir ruled over Serbs from the second half of 9th century to his death in 891/892. ... De Administrando Imperio is the commonly used title of a scholarly work from ca. ... Dominik Mandić ( December 2, 1889 - August 23, 1973) was a Bosnian Croat historian and politician, a member of the Franciscan Order. ...


Legacy

He married Prechvala, daughter of an unnamed župan of Raška, and they had four sons. The first born was called Chlavimir, the second Boleslav, the third Dragislav, and the fourth Svevlad. Župa or Å»upa (Cyrillic Жупа) is a Slavic term originally denoting various territorial and other subunits, usually a small administrative division, especially a gathering of several villages. ... RaÅ¡ka (Raschka, Rascia, Rassa) was the central and most successful medieval Serbian state (or župa, area ruled by a župan) that unified neighboring Serbian tribes into the main medieval Serbian state in Balkans. ...


Petar died and was buried in the Church of St. Peter, in the episcopate of Raška.


Petar's seventh descendent was Stefan Dobroslav I Vojislav, the founder of the House of Vojislavljević. Stefan Dobroslav I Vojislav was a Medieval ruler of Duklja (1034-1050). ... The House of Vojislav was a medieval dynasty that inherited the claims over Duklja of the old ruling House of Saint Vladimir and the Serbian House of Vlastimir dynasty. ...

Preceded by
Unknown
Prince of Duklja
ca. 900
Succeeded by
Hvalimir
Preceded by
Unknown
Prince of Zahumlje
ca. 900
Succeeded by
Dragoslav
Preceded by
Cucimir
Prince of Travunia
ca. 900
Succeeded by
Boleslav
Preceded by
Unknown
Prince of Podgoria
ca. 900
Succeeded by
Svevlad


 
 

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