Vojvoda Bogut
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Vojvoda Bogut was a 14th-century 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...

 military commander (voivode) of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Dušan "The Mighty" of 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...

 (1331-1355).

He was a noble (vlastelin), mayor (Lord) of Jablan grad, a medieval city in Bosnia, near Ugljevik
Ugljevik
Ugljevik is a municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The municipality located in the eastern foothills of Mount Majevica, in picturesque countryside, where wondrous and beautiful mountain starts descending towards the flatlands of Semberija, to which it is tied more than any other...

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He gave his name to Bogutovo Selo http://www.maplandia.com/bosnia-and-herzegovina/republika-srpska/bogutovo-selo/ a village in Ugljevik
Ugljevik
Ugljevik is a municipality and town in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The municipality located in the eastern foothills of Mount Majevica, in picturesque countryside, where wondrous and beautiful mountain starts descending towards the flatlands of Semberija, to which it is tied more than any other...

, modern Republika Srpska
Republika Srpska
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, Bosnia & Herzegovina, in the territory of his rule.

He had a son, Đurađ Bogutović
Đurađ Bogutović
Đurađ Bogutović was a 14th-century Serbian nobleman. He was the grand-father to Herak Heraković, the founding father of the Petrović-Njegoš and Heraković-Popović families of the Njeguši tribe....

, also a nobleman.

Bogut is the first known ancestor of the House of Petrovic-Njegoš
House of Petrovic-Njegoš
The House of Petrović-Njegoš was the Royal House of Montenegro from 1696 to 1918. Montenegro had enjoyed de facto independence from the Ottoman Empire from 1711 but only received formal international recognition as an independent principality in 1878.Montenegro was ruled from inception by...

, the 17th-century ruling family of Montenegro
Montenegro
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