Lazar of Serbia
Hrebeljanović Lazar ( Serbian Cyrillic Лазар Хребељановић; * to 1329 in Prilepac, Kosovo, † June 15, 1389 on the Field of Blackbirds ) was a Serbian Prince and is a martyr of the Serbian Orthodox Church.
Life
The father of Prince Lazar was Pribac, the mother's name is not known. The last name Hrebeljanović came from later traditions, which identified family a Hrebalj as the progenitor or its roots in Grbalj, today Tivat in the Bay of Kotor in Montenegro, had. Pribac was the logothete ( Chancellor ) of the Serbian Tsar Stefan Uroš IV Dušan, and also enabled Lazar a career at the court of the Emperor.
After the extinction of the Nemanjic dynasty and the fall of the Serbian Empire Lazar emerged as the most powerful feudal lord of Serbia and ruled in what is now central Serbia and parts of Kosovo. The capital of his principality was Kruševac. During his reign, the Serbian Orthodox Patriarchate was recognized by the Patriarch of Constantinople Opel. Lazar Hrebeljanović made the advancing Ottomans resistance, suggested this in Paraćin ( 1381 ) and Pločnik ( 1386 or 1387 ), but fell in the Battle of Kosovo on June 15, 1389th
Canonization
The Serbian Orthodox Church took him as Holy Great Martyr Prince Lazar on the ranks of the saints. His bones are now laid out in the monastery he built Ravanica. For Vidovdan his sarcophagus to the public is revealed. This monastery is located in the immediate vicinity of the city Ćuprija at Jagodina, which is located in south highway in the direction of Belgrade, Niš conditions.
Reception history
Shortly after the Battle of Kosovo begins the literary reception which raises the Prince Lazar protector of the Serbs and the Mythifizierung of the Holy Great Martyr continues to play an important role in the Serbian tradition. The oldest known text and at the same time the oldest poem is the praise of Prince Lazar of the nun Jefimija. The saint is draws in 1402 in the form of gold embroidery in Ljubostinja monastery asked to protect his sons Stefan Lazarević Vuk and during the Battle of Ankara.
In the Serbian folk poetry in particular plays the events of the Battle of Kosovo a prominent role. The ballads about Prince Lazar in Kosovo cycle are:
- The Fall of the Tsar of Serbia
- Supper of the princes
- Tsar Lazar and Tsaritsa Milica
- The Miracle of Lazar's head
After him further notified the Guard of Saint Lazar.