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Birth:          ABT 1089 of Serbia
Death:          ABT 1145 

Notes
d 1130/4
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uro%C5%A1_I,_Grand_Prince_of_Serbia
Uroš I (Serbian: ???? I, Greek: ???es??) was the Grand Prince (Veliki Župan) of the 
Grand Principality of Serbia from about 1112 to 1145.[1]
Biography[edit]

Origin[edit]

Uroš I was the son of Marko[a], who was a son of Petrislav of Rascia and brother of 
Grand Prince Vukan, who had sworn an oath of loyalty to Constantine Bodin, the 
Grand Prince of Duklja, becoming his vassals.[2] Marko, as the subordinate ruler, 
would have had his appanage in lands north of Rascia, bordering the Kingdom of 
Hungary.[3] The name Uroš itself, is most likely derived from the Hungarian word úr 
meaning "dominus" or "princeps", which is translated into the Slavic name 'Prvoslav', 
or 'Primislav', as seen in the case of Uroš II in Slavic sources.[4] It is a possibility that 
Marko married a Hungarian wife.[4]

War with Byzantium[edit]

 In 1092, the Serb Army defeated the Byzantine Army led by the governor of Durazzo, 
sent by Alexius Comnenus. In 1093, Alexius himself led a larger Byzantine Army and 
marched towards Rascia, but Vukan heard of this and immediately sought peace, 
which Alexius quickly accepted as new problems arose in the east where the Cumans 
penetrated as far as Adrianople. As soon as the Emperor had departed, Vukan broke 
the treaty, conquering the Vardar and taking the cities of Vranje, Skoplje and Tetovo. 
In 1094 or 1095, the Emperor once again marched to the Serbs, capturing Lipljan. 
This time Vukan met with him in his tent and gave him some twenty hostages, 
including Uroš I and Stefan Vukan, as an oath of peace.[5] Uroš was first mentioned in 
the contemporary Alexiad of Anna Komnene, a written account of the reign of her 
father Byzantine emperor Alexios I Komnenos.

Following the death of Vukan in 1112, Uroš succeeded as Grand Prince.[6]

Civil War in Duklja[edit]

In 1113 or 1114, the Byzantine Army based in Durazzo invaded Duklja and captured 
the capital of Scutari. Duklja at the time was ruled by Prince Đorde of Duklja (r. 1118), 
the son of Constantine Bodin. The Byzantines installed Grubeša Branislavljevic after 
1118, banishing Đorde to Rascia. Đorde claimed protection of Uroš, and in the 1125 
the two led an army against Grubeša,[7] meeting in the Battle of Antivari. Grubeša was 
killed and Đorde retained his realm, although not all of it. Small parts were ruled by 
cousins, among them the three brothers of Grubeša, who would soon quarrel with 
Đorde. The Byzantines again invaded the coastlands of Duklja, giving nominal rule to 
Gradinja, resulting in a guerilla war in the woods. The second expedition captured 
Đorde. He was taken to Constantinople where he died. Gradinja strengthened the ties 
with Serbia.[8]

Diplomacy[edit]

In around 1130, he married his daughter, Jelena, to King Béla II of Hungary. Bela II, 
being blind, relied entirely on Jelena who acted as a co-ruler. Jelena is sourced as 
having decided to massacre 68 aristocrats at the Arad assembly, who had persuaded 
Coloman to blind her husband.

In 1137, Ladislaus II, the son of Béla II and Jelena, became the titular Ban of Bosnia.

When Bela II died on 13 February 1141, the eldest son Géza II ascended the throne, 
still a child. Therefore, Helena and her brother Beloš Vukanovic, whom she had invited 
to the court, governed the Kingdom of Hungary until September 1146 when he came 
of age.

Beloš was the Ban of Croatia 1142-1158, under the Hungarian crown, and held the 
comes palatinus (Count palatine), the highest court title of the Kingdom.

Family[edit]

Uroš was married to a Byzantine noblewoman named Anna Diogene, who through her 
father Constantine was a granddaughter of Romanos IV Diogenes. They had the 
following issue:
Uroš II - Uroš' successor
Desa - Duke of Serbian Primorje, co-ruled Rascia with Uroš II
Beloš - Ban of Croatia and briefly Prince of Serbia
Jelena - married Béla II the Blind, King of Hungary
Marija, married Conrad II of Znojmo. They had five children.

and possibly
Zavida - Duke of Zahumlje. In a Zadar act, Beloš's brother is named "Stefan"; that 
name is found in the sons of Zavida.[9]

Parents
____ Marko (ABT 1060 - )
----- ----- ()

Siblings
____ Uros (Bejela) I (ABT 1089 - ABT 1145)

Marriage To DIOGENISSA Anna (ABT 1074 - 1145)
    m.  

Notes

Parents
DIOGENES Konstantios (ABT 1050 - 1074)
KOMNENA Theodora (ABT 1053 - )

Children by DIOGENISSA Anna ABT 1074 - 1145
NEMANJICS Ilona (Jelena) (Jereha) (Helena) (ABT 1115 - 1157)

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