The House of Mrnjavčević was a medieval Serbian

Serbs

The Serbs are a South Slavic ethnic group of the Balkans and southern Central Europe. Serbs are located mainly in Serbia, Montenegro and Bosnia and Herzegovina, and form a sizable minority in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia and Slovenia. Likewise, Serbs are an officially recognized minority in...

 noble house

Serbian nobility

Serbian nobility was the privileged order or class of Serbia in the Middle Ages and Early Modern times.The first nobles of greater status was those in the 9th and 10th century, who were connected to the royal family by marriage. In the 13th and 14th centuries, the nobility greatly expanded, and in...

 that existed during the Serbian Empire

Serbian Empire

The Serbian Empire was a short-lived medieval empire in the Balkans that emerged from the Serbian Kingdom. Stephen Uroš IV Dušan was crowned Emperor of Serbs and Greeks on 16 April, 1346, a title signifying a successorship to the Eastern Roman Empire...

, its fall

Fall of the Serbian Empire

Following the death of child-less Uroš the Weak, the Serbian Empire was left without an heir and the military commanders obtained the rule of the past provinces and districts , continuing their offices with titles such as gospodin and despot etc., given to them during the Empire...

, and the subsequent years when it held a region of present-day Macedonia region

Macedonia (region)

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. The house ruled a province from its base at Prilep

Prilep

Prilep is the fourth largest city in the Republic of Macedonia. It has a population of 66,246 citizens. Prilep is known as "the city under Marko's Towers" because of its proximity to the towers of Prince Marko.-Name:...

 (in modern Republic of Macedonia

Republic of Macedonia

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) from 1366 to 1395.

Vukašin Mrnjavčević

Vukašin Mrnjavcevic

Vukašin Mrnjavčević was a Serbian ruler in modern-day central and northwestern Macedonia, who ruled from 1365 to 1371. According to 17th-century Ragusan historian Mavro Orbin, his father was a minor noble named Mrnjava from Zachlumia, whose sons Vukašin and Uglješa were born in Livno in western...

 was a military commander in the army of Emperor Dušan the Mighty (r. 1331-1355) and co-ruler of Serbia as King, alongside Emperor Uroš the Weak (r. 1355-1371). After Uroš' death, the Serbian Empire crumbled, as the nobility couldn't agree on its rightful successor. Vukašin's son, Marko Kraljević

Prince Marko

Marko Mrnjavčević was de jure the Serbian king from 1371 to 1395, while de facto he ruled only over a territory in western Macedonia centered on the town of Prilep...

, ruled his hereditary lands as titular King of Serbs and Greeks.

Family tree

• Mrnjava
  Mrnjava
  Mrnja or Mrnjava was a Serbian provincial nobleman and treasurer serving Helen of Anjou at Trebinje , the wife of Stephen Uroš I of Serbia. He was the father of Vukašin Mrnjavčević, the co-ruler of the Serbian Empire and founder of the Mrnjavčević dynasty.He was born in Zahumlje...
  
  , a treasurer of Queen Helen
• Vukašin Mrnjavčević
  Vukašin Mrnjavcevic
  Vukašin Mrnjavčević was a Serbian ruler in modern-day central and northwestern Macedonia, who ruled from 1365 to 1371. According to 17th-century Ragusan historian Mavro Orbin, his father was a minor noble named Mrnjava from Zachlumia, whose sons Vukašin and Uglješa were born in Livno in western...
  
  , King and Lord of the Serbian and Greek Lands, and of the Western Provinces (1366-1371)

• Marko Kraljević, Young King, titular King (1371-1395)
• Andrijaš Vukašinović
• Ivaniš Vukašinović
• Dimitar Vukašinović
• Olivera
  • Jovan Uglješa
    Jovan Ugljesa
    Jovan Uglješa Mrnjavčević was a 14th-century Serbian noble and brother of Serbian ruler Vukašin Mrnjavčević.-Life:Uglješa was the son of Mrnjava, a treasurer of Helen of Anjou, the queen consort of Stephen Uroš I of Serbia....
    
    , Župan of Zahumlje
    Zachlumia
    Zachlumia or Zahumlje was a medieval principality located in modern-day regions of Herzegovina and southern Dalmatia...
    
    , later Despot of Serres
    Serres
    Serres is a city in Greece, seat of the Serres prefecture.Serres may also refer to:Places:* Serres, Germany, a part of Wiernsheim in Baden-WürttembergIn France:* Serres, Aude in the Aude département...
    
    
• Tvrtko
• Uglješa
• Eupraxia
  • Jelena
  • Gojko Mrnjavčević
    Gojko Mrnjavčević
    Gojko Mrnjavčević was a 14th-century noble that held the title of logothete in the Serbian Empire. He is mentioned in Serb epic poetry as Vojvoda Gojko, commanding the Serbian army in the Battle of Maritsa against the Ottoman Empire alongside his two brothers...
    
    

Sources

• Prof. Dr Branislav Milutinović, Pomoćne istorijske nauke, Niš, 2000.