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Chlapenos Radoslabos
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Identical with Radoslav’ (Povikь?)? It is doubtful, that he is the same person as the župan Hlapen, who governed Konavle and the region of Trebinje. He died before 1385. He was a commandant of the Serbian military troops in Macedonia, 1350. He controlled a large area in Macedonia in the border region, 1357–1362. He was a relative of the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan. He married Eirene Prelumpissa in 1358 (ὅθεν καὶ γυναῖκα λαμβάνει τὴν τοῦ Πρελούμπου ἐκείνου γαμετήν). He was the father of Helena. According to a manuscript note she was married to Marko Mrnjavčević (vь dьni blagověrnago kralja Mar’ka, jegda ōdade Thodoru Grьgurovu ženu Hlapenu, a uze ženu svoju prьvověn’čan’nu Jelenu, Hlapenovu dьštere). His second daughter was the wife of Nikolaos Baldubinos Pagases [Νικόλαος Βαλδουβῖνος Παγάσης/Nikola Bagaš] (ἀπὸ τοῦ πενθεροῦ μου Ῥαδοσλάβου τοῦ Χλαπένου). The third daughter called Maria Angelina Radosthlaba married Alexios Angelos Philantropenos. Mauro Orbini, a Ragusan chronicler from 16th century, who used older sources, mentions also a son of him called Stefan-Dukas (I maschi si chiamauno Duca & Stefano). He defected in 1350 along with Tolisthlabos from the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan to the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos (ἧκον δὲ καὶ αὐτόμολοι δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν· ὧν ἅτερος τῶν μάλιστα ἦν ἐπιφανῶν, κατὰ γένος προσήκων Κράλῃ, Χλάπαινος ὠνομασμένος, στρατιάν τε ἔχων ὑφ’ ἑαυτὸν οὐκ εὐκαταφρόνητον καὶ πολλὴν περιουσίαν· ὁ λοιπὸς δὲ οὐ τῶν πάνυ περιδόξων ἦν, πλὴν κἀκεῖνος ἀρχάς τε πόλεων ἐγκεχειρισμένος καὶ στρατοπέδων ἡγεμονίας, ὄνομα Τολίσθλαβος). After a while he switched sides again and joined most likely the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan. He captured Beroia before 1359, probably in 1351 (Οὗτος τοίνυν ὁ Χλάπενος, εἷς ὢν τῶν Σερβικῶν σατραπῶν καὶ τινα φρούρια ἐκ τῶν Ῥωμαï κῶν ὁρίων εἰληφώς, ἀλλὰ δὴ καὶ τὴν μεγαλόδοξον πόλιν Βέῤῥοιαν, μεγάλως ἐπὶ τοὶς κατορθώμασιν ἐσέμνυνεν). He witnessed the apparently falsified charter issued by the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš V in 1355 for the inhabitants of the town of Kotor (Radosav Chlapene). He acted as a protector of the inheritance right of his wife and his stepson Toma Preljubović (Θωμᾶς Πρέλουμπος). Therefore he seized the Thessalian town Damasis in 1359/1360 (Τῇ Βλαχίᾳ δὲ φθάσας μετὰ τῶν στρατευμάτων καὶ φρούριον ἓν πολιορκία εἰληφώς, Δάμασιν καλούμενον, εἰς συμβάσεις μετὰ τοῦ βασιλέως Συμεὼν χωροῦσι, καὶ τὸ φρούριον τούτῳ παραχωρεῖ). He gave up the town of Damasis to Simeon Uroš (Συμεὼν Παλαιολόγος) on condition of arranging the marriage between Maria Angelina Komnene Palaiologina, the daughter of Simeon, and Toma Preljubović (Θωμᾶς Πρέλουμπος). He founded the Mesonesiotissa Monastery near Kastoria (καὶ ἂν κατὰ διαδοχὴν καὶ κληρονομίαν ἔλαβον ἀπὸ τοῦ πενθεροῦ μου Ῥαδοσλάβου τοῦ Χλαπένου σεβασμίαν καὶ ἱερὰν μονὴν, τὴν παρ’ ἐκείνου ἀνεγερθεῖσαν ἐκ βάθρων αὐτῶν τῇ ὑπερευλογημένῃ ἡμῶν δεσποίνῃ καὶ θεομήτορι, τὴν οὕτω πως καλουμένην Μεσονησιώτισσαν). Apparently his ring was found on a medieval necropolis of the Vodoča Monastery near Strumica. It bears an invocation (Izvolite raba Božija Hlapena).
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Mpozikes
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Mentioned for the year 1343 by the Byzantine historian Ioannes Kantakuzenos. He was a commander of the Serbian military troops (ἡ στρατιὰ Τριβαλῶν, ἧς ἡγεῖται Μποζίκης τις προσαγορευόμενος καὶ Στέφανος δεύτερος, ἐκ πεζῶν καὶ ἱππέων ἠθροισμένη, πεμφθείη μὲν παρὰ Κράλη ἐπὶ τῷ βλάπτειν βασιλέα). He and his lieutenant Stephanos led the Serbian army consisting of footmen and horsemen, which stayed for the night at Gaurobon on the right bank of the river Vardar. When the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos with the troops had crossed the river, Mpozikes and Stephanos allegedly without the knowing of the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan attacked the troops of Kantakuzenos. The Serbian Stefan Uroš IV Dušan sent him and Stephanos to Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos in order to be exercised by the jurisdiction of the Byzantine Emperor. Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos reprimanded him in Beroia and released him afterwards.
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It is doubtful whether he is the same person as Župan Petar Brajan, who founded the Church Bela Crkva in Karan near Užice between the years 1340 and 1342 (Gospodi bože...raba blagorodivogь ktitora petra a zovomь župana braiana i sь podružiemь si sь struōmь i sь čedi svoimi). Mentioned for the year 1350 by the Byzantine historian Ioannes Kantakuzenos. He was the Governor of the town Chrysupolis (Amphipolis), summer 1350. He was a friend of the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos. He promised to persuade other acquitances of emperor willing to support military aid to Ioannes VI. Kantakuzenos (καὶ τὴν νύκτα ἐκείνην ὡρμίσατο ἐπ’ ἀγκυρῶν Ἀμφιπόλεως ἐγγὺς ὑπὸ Τριβαλῶν κατεχομένης. ἧς ἐπετρόπευε Μπραϊάνης, βασιλεῖ ἐς τὰ μάλιστα φίλος ὢν ἐκ τῆς πρὸς αὐτοὺς διατριβῆς· πρὸς ὃν ἀκατίου ἐπιβὰς νυκτὸς, ἀφίκετο εἰς Ἀμφίπολιν ὁ βασιλεὺς κρύφα καὶ διειλέχθη. ὁ δὲ τά τε πρὸς αὐτὸν εὖ διέθετο βασιλεῖ ἐπαγγειλάμενος πάντα ποιήσειν κατὰ γνώμην, καὶ τοῖς ἄλλοις βασιλέως φίλοις ὑπέσχετο διαλεχθήσεσθαι, ἵν’ ἐν καιρῷ προσήκοντι χρήσιμοι ὀφθεῖεν βασιλεῖ).
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Stephanos (3)
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Mentioned for the year 1343 by the Byzantine historian Ioannes Kantakuzenos. He was a lieutenant of the Serbian military troops (ἡ στρατιὰ Τριβαλῶν, ἧς ἡγεῖται Μποζίκης τις προσαγορευόμενος καὶ Στέφανος δεύτερος, ἐκ πεζῶν καὶ ἱππέων ἠθροισμένη, πεμφθείη μὲν παρὰ Κράλη ἐπὶ τῷ βλάπτειν βασιλέα). He and his superior commander Mpozikes led the Serbian army consisting of footmen and horsemen, which stayed for the night at Gaurobon on the right bank of the river Vardar. When the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos with the troops had crossed the river, Mpozikes and Stephanos allegedly without the knowing of the Serbian King Stefan Uroš IV Dušan attacked the troops of Kantakuzenos. The Serbian Stefan Uroš IV Dušan sent him and Mpozikes to Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos in order to be exercised by the jurisdiction of the Byzantine Emperor. Ioannes VI Kantakuzenos reprimanded him in Beroia and released him afterwards.
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Tolisthlabos
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Mentioned for the year 1350 by the Byzantine historian Ioannes Kantakuzenos. He was a commander of the Serbian military troops and governor of towns. He defected in 1350 along with Radoslabos Chlapenos from the Serbian Emperor Stefan Uroš IV Dušan to the Byzantine Emperor Ioannes Kantakuzenos (ἧκον δὲ καὶ αὐτόμολοι δύο ἐξ αὐτῶν· ὧν ἅτερος τῶν μάλιστα ἦν ἐπιφανῶν, κατὰ γένος προσήκων Κράλῃ, Χλάπαινος ὠνομασμένος, στρατιάν τε ἔχων ὑφ’ ἑαυτὸν οὐκ εὐκαταφρόνητον καὶ πολλὴν περιουσίαν· ὁ λοιπὸς δὲ οὐ τῶν πάνυ περιδόξων ἦν, πλὴν κἀκεῖνος ἀρχάς τε πόλεων ἐγκεχειρισμένος καὶ στρατοπέδων ἡγεμονίας, ὄνομα Τολίσθλαβος).
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Tzimpanos
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Mentioned for the year 1342 by the Byzantine historian Ioannes Kantakuzenos. He was a Serbian shepherd, who migrated with his livestock periodically. He came from the village David near Prosek. He captured the Protosebastos Konstantinos Palaiologos and Arsenios Tzamplakon and brought them to Megas Dux Alexios Apokaukos, who was in Thessalonike. He became the land and properties in Thessalonike of Tzamplakon from Alexios Apokaukos as a reward (καὶ τῶν νομάδων Τριβαλῶν τις περὶ Πρόσοικον οἰκῶν ἐν κώμῃ τοῦ Δαβὶδ προσαγορευομένῃ, Τζιμπάνος ὄνομα, τὰ περὶ Καντακουζηνὸν τὸν βασιλέα ἐν Γυναικοκάστρῳ συμβάντα πεπυσμένος, ἐπεὶ παρ’ αὐτῷ οἱ πρέσβεις ἐξενίζοντο, οὓς πρότερον ἔπεμψε πρὸς Κράλην κελεύων ἐμμένειν ταῖς σπονδαῖς ταῖς πρὸς αὐτὸν, οἳ Κωνσταντῖνός τε ἦσαν ὁ Παλαιολόγος, τὴν ἀξίαν πρωτοσεβαστὸς, καὶ Ἀρσένιος ὁ Τζαμπλάκων· περὶ τούτους δὴ ὁ Τζιμπάνος βαρβαρικῶς διατεθεὶς, καὶ ἵππων τῶν ἀγόντων ἐπιθυμήσας καὶ τῆς ἄλλης ἀποσκευῆς οὔσης οὐκ ὀλίγης, ἅμα ἐκείνοις καὶ τέκνα καὶ γυναῖκα καὶ βοσκήματα, ἃ ἦν αὐτῷ περιουσία, παραλαβὼν, ηὐτομόλησε πρὸς μέγαν δοῦκα ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ καὶ τοὺς βασιλέως πρεσβευτὰς ὥσπερ τι δῶρον προσήγαγε δεσμώτας. ὁ δὲ ἄγαν ὑπερησθεὶς, τὸν μὲν βάρβαρον ἠμείβετο φιλοτίμως, οἰκιῶν αὐτίκα καὶ κτήσεων μεγάλων, αἳ Τζαμπλάκωνι ἦσαν ἐν Θεσσαλονίκῃ, κύριον ἀποδείξας).
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