Đorđe Branković, Count of Podgorica

Djordje Brankovic (* 1645 in Jenopolje (now Inew, Arad County, Romania), † December 19, 1711 in Eger in Bohemia ) was a Transylvanian Messenger and Graf.

Life

Count Djordje Brankovic was born in 1645 in Jenopolje, which lay on the border with the Ottoman Empire, in Transylvania.

His father and two brothers died of the plague. The mother of noble birth went to the monastery, while Đorđe the care of her eldest son Simeon was passed. This was a priest in Jenopolje, and later became a monk and also under the name of Sava ( Sava, 1656-1680 ) to the Orthodox Archbishop of Transylvania.

In the period 1675-1677 Djordje Brankovic was the Messenger of Transylvania at the gate and brought the tribute to the Ottomans. During this occasion, he traveled through Belgrade and Serbia. With his brother Sava Đorđe was also in Russia, where both the Russian Tsar Alexis I (1645-1676) offered an alliance and military aid in the fight against the Ottomans. Because of the suspicion of participation in a conspiracy against the Prince of Transylvania Apafi Michael I. (1661-1690) he and Sava were arrested and taken to a dungeon. He soon managed to escape to Bucharest, where he mediated the approach of the Wallachian prince Şerban Cantacuzino I. (1678-1688) to the Austrian Habsburgs. As a reward he received the noble title of Baron. From the Serbian Patriarch Djordje Brankovic got the certification of his descent from the last prince of Serbia (which the Brankovic, 1427-1459 ), and in terms of his own proclamation of the prince of the Illyricum he called himself Prince Djordje Brankovic II. He made his project the Austrian Emperor Leopold I (1658-1705) known. But Vienna did not accept this proposal. Djordje Brankovic was only the title of Count. When the Habsburgs deeply penetrated into the Serbian hinterland in the Turkish War of 1683-1699, he called on the Serbs to fight for freedom against the Ottomans, with him as their prince. This coincided not with the state interests of Austria, was why the military commanders arranged to arrest him and bring to Vienna. In Vienna he was imprisoned until 1702 in the restaurant "The Golden Bear " under constant guard, then moved to Eger in Bohemia, where Djordje Brankovic died in 1711.

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