The Musić was a Serbian noble house that served 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...

 (1345–1371), and during 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...

 (1371–1389) it served Tsar Lazar's Serbia

Moravian Serbia

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. 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

North Kosovo

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. The brothers died fighting the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Kosovo

Battle of Kosovo

The Battle of Kosovo took place on St. Vitus' Day, June 15, 1389, between the army led by Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Sultan Murad I...

 (1389).

History

They held a region of north Kosovo

North Kosovo

North or Northern Kosovo refers to a region in the northern part of Kosovo with an ethnic Serb majority that functions largely autonomously from the remainder of the disputed territory, which has an ethnic Albanian majority. Ibarian Kolashin , a toponym that pre-dates the political partition, is...

, around Ibar

Ibar River

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 with the seat in Zvečan

Zvecan

Zvečan is a town and municipality in the Kosovska Mitrovica district of Kosovo. It is a part of North Kosovo, a region with an ethnic Serb majority that functions largely autonomously from the remainder of the ethnic-Albanian-majority Kosovo and Metohija. The municipality covers an area of , and...

. Musa was given the estate by Emperor

Emperor of Serbia

The Emperor of Serbia or Emperor of the Serbs and Greeks was the imperial title used during the Serbian Empire , by only two monarchs; Stefan Uroš IV Dušan the Mighty and Stefan Uroš V the Weak.-History:...

 Stephen Uroš V Nemanjić

House of Nemanjic

The Nemanjić was the most important dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages, and one of the most important in Southeastern Europe. The royal house produced eleven Serbian monarchs between 1166 and 1371. It's progenitor was Stephen Nemanja, who descended from a cadet line of the Vukanović dynasty...

 (r. 1355-1371). They relocated their seat to Brvenik

Brvenik

Brvenik is a village in the municipality of Raška, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 67 people.-References:...

 on the Ibar, due to the swapping of fortified cities with Vojislav Vojinović

Vojislav Vojinović

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 (around 1355-1363). Their oblast

Oblast

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includes the Kopaonik

Kopaonik

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 area (with mines), in the middle of the Ibar and Lab

Lab River

The Lab is a river in the north-eastern part of Kosovo. The long right tributary to the Sitnica river, it is the main river in the Malo Kosovo depression...

, and stretched from the Radočelo

Radočelo

Radočelo is a mountain in central Serbia, between towns of Ivanjica and Raška. Its highest peak Krivača has an altitude of 1643 meters above sea level.Studenica monastery is located on northeastern slopes of the mountain....

 and Brvenička župa in the northwest, to the Brvenica

Brvenica

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 tributary of Lab in the southeast.

They supported the politics of Autokrator Lazar Hrebeljanović

Lazar of Serbia

Lazar Hrebeljanović , was a medieval nobleman that emerged as the most powerful Serbian ruler after the death of the previous, childless, Emperor Uroš the Weak, which resulted in years of instability in the Serbian realm. As Stefan Lazar, he was Prince of Serbia from 1371 to 1389, ruling what is...

 (r. 1371-1389), and participated in the war against Grand župan Nikola Altomanović

Nikola Altomanovic

Nikola Altomanović was Serbian župan from 14th century. He ruled vast areas from Rudnik, over Polimlje, Podrinje, east Herzegovina with Trebinje, till Konavle and Dračevica, neighboring the Republic of Dubrovnik...

 (1366–1373), whom Stefan Musić directly ordered to be blinded

Blinded

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 in Užiče

Užice

Užice is a city and municipality in western Serbia, located at the banks of the Đetinja river. It is the administrative center of the Zlatibor District...

, and thus left the political war during the fall of the Empire. The two Musić brothers fell in the Battle of Kosovo

Battle of Kosovo

The Battle of Kosovo took place on St. Vitus' Day, June 15, 1389, between the army led by Serbian Prince Lazar Hrebeljanović, and the invading army of the Ottoman Empire under the leadership of Sultan Murad I...

 (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

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