Gojko Mrnjavčević
| Gojko Mrnjavčević | |
|---|---|
| File:Gojko Mrnjavčević, Krunisanje cara Dušana.jpg Detail of Krunisanje Cara Dušana (Coronation of Tsar Dušan) by Paja Jovanović (1900). | |
| Reign | Mid- 14th century-1371 |
| Titles and styles
logothete (Logotet) | |
| Born | ? |
| Died | ? |
| Family | Mrnjavčević |
| Father | Mrnjava |
| Mother | Јана Груба Немањић |
| Religion | Orthodox Christianity |
Gojko Mrnjavčević (Serbian: Гојко Мрњавчевић; fl. 1355–unknown) is the name of a fictional character in Serb epic poetry as Vojvoda Gojko.[1] He was supposedly a 14th-century noble that held the title of logothete in the Serbian Empire. In a song about the Fall of the Serbian Empire, he is described as a commander the Serbian army in the Battle of Maritsa against the Ottoman Empire alongside his two brothers. The Serbian army was destroyed and he and his brother died in the battle..[1]
He is described as the third of the Mrnjavčević brothers (alongside Vukašin and Uglješa). Modern historiography has found no third son of Mrnjava.[2]
In the Serbian epic poem The Building of Skadar[3] the three brothers were building a fortress on the Bojana river, at Skadar, (now Shkodër, Albania), for three years, until he has buried his young wife alive within the walls of the Skadar fortress, as a sacrifice demanded by the mountain vila (nymph in Slavic mythology).[4]
In the Battle of Maritsa, he supposedly commanded 30.000, as did his brothers.[5] (In reality-30,000 soldiers was probably close to the total number of soldiers that marched toward their destruction at that fateful battle on the Maritsa R. in Sept. 1371)
Genealogy[edit]
He is registered as an ancestor of the Serb clan of Mrnjavčevići.
- Gojko
- Nenad
- Grča (Gavrilo) Nenadin
- Panto Grčin (Grčić)
- Đurađ
- Tihomir
- Marko
- Aleksa (Lješ)
- Petar Pantin (Pantović)
- Marko
- Andrija
- Vuko (Vukašin)
- Nikač (Nikola)
- Petar
- Andrija
- Nikola
- Stojan
- Vuko
- Stevo (Stefan)
- Periša
- Stefan
- Vuk
- Pera
- Ranđel
- Panajot
- Veličko
- Andrija
- Goran
- Luka
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 "[Projekat Rastko Gracanica] Serbian Epic Poetry: The Fall of the Serbian Empire".
- ↑ Boskovic, Vladislav (2009). King Vukasin and the Disastrous Battle of Marica. GRIN Verlag. p. 2. ISBN 978-3640492435. Retrieved 9 March 2020. Search this book on
- ↑ Zidanje Skadra
- ↑ Maja Mikula, Nationalism and the Rhetoric of Exclusion, University of Technology Sydney
- ↑ Serbian folk songs: fairy tales and proverbs, p. 92
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