Despot Stefan Lazarević
The Charters of Despot Stefan to Hilandar Monastery
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And this chrysobull was written and given to the Church of the imperial cloister of Hilandar. In the year 1411, indiction 4, on the 8th of the month of June, in Jagodna. And all this I donated for Leštije when I returned Leštije to its founder, the priest lord Venedikt Crepović. By the counsel of God's Patriarch and of the whole God-given Assembly, with the metropolitans and with the nobles, since it did not please us to receive a reward, as is just, from the toil of others but from our own patrimony, I donated all this to the holy Monastery of Hilandar. By the grace of God lord of all the Serbs and of the Danube lands, Despot Stefan Translation into modern Serbian after: Aleksandar Mladenović, Charters and Letters of Despot Stefan: Text, Commentaries, Photographs (Povelje i pisma Despota Stefana: tekst, komentari, snimci), "Povelje" Edition (Belgrade: Čigoja štampa, 2007), 196–197 (with minor changes).
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