Musić noble family

Musić
Country	Serbian Empire and Moravian Serbia
Estates	North Kosovo: Zvečan (1st) Brvenik (2nd)
Titles	čelnik (Head)
Founded	before 1355
Dissolution	1389 (Battle of Kosovo)
Ethnicity	Serb

The Musić (Serbian Cyrillic: Мусић, pl. Мусићи) was a Serbian noble house that served the Serbian Empire (1345–1371), and during its fall (1371–1389) it served Tsar Lazar's Serbia. The eponymous founder was čelnik Musa, who married Dragana Hrebeljanović, the sister of Tsar Lazar (r. 1371-1389). Stefan and Lazar Musić, the sons of Musa, held a region of roughly modern Raška municipality and north Kosovo. The brothers died fighting the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Kosovo (1389).

History

ktetor portrait of the Musići,
Nova Pavlica monastery, Serbia.
Dated second half of XIV century.

They held a region of north Kosovo, around Ibar with the seat in Zvečan. Musa was given the estate by Emperor Stephen Uroš V Nemanjić (r. 1355-1371). They relocated their seat to Brvenik on the Ibar, due to the swapping of fortified cities with Vojislav Vojinović (around 1355-1363). Their oblast includes the Kopaonik area (with mines), in the middle of the Ibar and Lab, and stretched from the Radočelo and Brvenička župa in the northwest, to the Brvenica tributary of Lab in the southeast.^[1]

They supported the politics of Autokrator Lazar Hrebeljanović (r. 1371-1389), and participated in the war against Grand župan Nikola Altomanović (1366–1373), whom Stefan Musić directly ordered to be blinded in Užiče, and thus left the political war during the fall of the Empire. The two Musić brothers fell in the Battle of Kosovo (1389), and mentions of the Musić house ended.

The Musić brothers founded the Nova Pavlica monastery, built after the Stara Pavlica, near Brvenik (Ibar). At the request of their mother Dragana, the sister of Lazar Hrebeljanović, the monastery became a nunnery, in which Dragana spent the end of her life as nun.

Members

• Musa, čelnik under Emperor Stephen Uroš V (1355–1371)
  • Stefan Musić
  • Lazar Musić

References

1. ^ Mihaljčić, p. 216

Sources

• Mihaljčić, Rade, Kraj srpskog carstva, Beograd, 1975. (str. 216)
• Fajfric, Sveta loza Stefana Nemanje, chapter X
• The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest, John Van Antwerp Fine, 1987
• Ј. Деретић, Српска народна епика, Београд 2000.
• Ј. Деретић, Историја српске књижевности, Београд 2002.
• Р. Михаљчић, Јунаци косовске легенде, Београд 2001.
• М. Шуица, Немирно доба српског Средњег века, Властела српских обласних господара, Београд 2000.
• Istorijska Biblioteka: Stefan Musić