Ivaniš Berislavić

Ivaniš Berislavic († 1514) was Serbian Despot 1504-1514 and ban of Jajce, with the task of protecting the borders of South-Hungary against the Ottoman attacks.

He came from the Croatian magnates bad the Berislavic. After the former Serbian despot Jovan Brankovic had died, Ivaniš was used by the Hungarian King Vladislav II to the Serbian despot. Previously, he had to take to Jelena woman Jovan Brankovics widow. Soon after, he also got the Banovina of Jajce in the then Hungarian part of Bosnia happened. He possessed fiefs in Syrmia, where he had his residence in Kupinik, further Slavonski Brod that he also used it as a residence and where he supervised from the cities of Syrmia and Slavonia, Banovina and Jajce. Although the Roman Catholic faith, he had good contacts with the Orthodox church and moved it to cooperate with the Orthodox Christian countries such as Russia. Ivaniš Berislavic distinguished himself in battle against the Ottomans. In 1513 he asked the Hungarian king to release him from service as a ban of Jajce, as he could no longer fulfill this from physical weakness. A year later he died. He was succeeded by his son Stefan Berislavic.

• Despot (Serbia )
• Born in the 15th century
• Died in 1514
• Man