Vuk Kosača
Vuk Kosača | |
|---|---|
| knyaz, duke | |
| Born | 1317 Rudine |
| Died | 1359 (ca. 42) Rudine |
| Family | Kosača |
| Issue | |
| Father | Unnamed knez from Rudine |
Vuk (Serbian Cyrillic: Вук; 1317–1359), sometimes also called Hran in sources, was a 14th century magnate and a powerful nobleman in service to the Serbian king Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55). Vuk is considered to be a progenitor of Bosnian noble family, the Kosačas, one of the most prominent during the 14th and 15th century Bosnia. He held a possessions in eastern Bosnia, in Podrinje. He was a long-term rival of the Rastislalićs, a nobility from the northeast Serbia.