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Despot Stefan Lazarević

Where Is Despot Stefan Buried?

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„и̑ кнеза лазара ст͠ о тиело лежи ꙋ̑ монастирꙋ раванници. ѿ нега роди се деспотъ стефанъ и̑ ѡ̑ нъ тꙋрке прегони .г. пꙋта преко мора. и̑ неби ꙋ̑ нега сина и̑ неговое ст͠ о тиело ꙋ̑ ресави. ꙋ̑ црк꙯ви.“ The Serbian Monks Damnjan and Pavao Petition Pope Clement VIII in the Name of the Serbian People and Their Leaders (Srpski monasi Damnjan i Pavao mole papu Klementa VIII. u ime naroda i glavara srpskih), … [Vat. arh. Borgh. I, 913, f. 154] = [Karlo Horvat], "New Historical Monuments for the History of Bosnia and the Neighboring Lands. Collected from the Roman Archives and Edited by Dr. Karlo Horvat" („Novi historijski spomenici za povjest Bosne i susjednih zemalja. Iz rimskih arhiva sakupio i uredio Dr. Karlo Horvat“), Herald of the National Museum in Bosnia and Herzegovina (Гласник Земаљског музеја у Босни и Херцеговини), year XXI, Book 1–2 (January–June 1909): 1–104: 56–58: 57 [= 58. Year 1597, last months.] = Marija Koprivica and Katarina Mitrović, "The Letter of the Serbian Monks Damjan and Pavle to Pope Clement VIII from the End of the 16th Century" („Писмо српских калуђера Дамјана и Павла папи Клименту VIII с краја XVI века“), Glas CDXXXV of the Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts - Department of Language and Literature (Глас CDXXXV Српске академије наука и уметности - Одељење језика и књижевности), Book 33 (2023): 85–115: 92–95: 93.

"And the holy body of Prince Lazar lies in the monastery of Ravanica. Of him was born Despot Stefan, and he drove the Turks three times across the sea, and he had no son, and his holy body is in Resava, in the church." The Letter of the Serbian Monks Damjan and Pavle to Pope Clement VIII (translation by Marija Koprivica and Katarina Mitrović) = Koprivica and Mitrović, "The Letter of the Serbian Monks Damjan and Pavle to Pope Clement VIII from the End of the 16th Century," 96.

Sources from the 17th century

16th / 17th / 18th century (?): Tronoša Genealogy [or: Tronoša Chronicle] [Родословїе сербскѡе]: „[Стефань] ... все времѧ жизни своеѧ упражнѧшесѧ въ милостинѧхъ, и во зданїа монастирей и церквей многихъ, иже потомъ многїа разрꙋшени сꙋтъ повсюдꙋ ѿ агарѧнъ; найпаче во столномъ градѣ єгѡ белградѣ; но само єще две стоѧтъ целе, монастиръ калинићъ и светотроическаѧ обителъ на рецѣ ресави, зовомаѧ манасїа, со треми ѡградами