page_title: Konstantin Dejanović
hierarchical_section_title: Konstantin Dejanović
caption_attribution_description: English: A page from Ivan Alexander's Gospels (London copy). Lord Konstantin Dejanović, Kera-Tamara, Kerica, Desislava. Српски / srpski: Деспот Константин Драгаш Дејановић са својом таштом Кером Тамаром и њеним сестрама Керицом и Десиславом, на Лондонском Четворојеванђељу цара Ивана Александра.
context_page_description: Konstantin Dejanović was a Serbian magnate that ruled a large province in eastern Macedonia under Ottoman suzerainty, during the fall of the Serbian Empire. He succeeded his older brother Jovan Dragaš, who had been an Ottoman vassal since the Battle of Maritsa which had devastated part of the Serbian nobility. The brothers had their own government and minted coins according to the Nemanjić style. His daughter Jelena married Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos in 1392. He fell at the Battle of Rovine, serving the Ottomans against Wallachia, fighting alongside Serbian magnates Stefan Lazarević and Marko Mrnjavčević.
  Konstantin's grandson, last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI, was named after him, and even used the name Dragaš.
context_section_description: Konstantin (Kostadin) Dejanović (Serbian Cyrillic: Константин (Костадин) Дејановић; fl. 1365-95) was a Serbian magnate that ruled a large province in eastern Macedonia under Ottoman suzerainty, during the fall of the Serbian Empire. He succeeded his older brother Jovan Dragaš, who had been an Ottoman vassal since the Battle of Maritsa (1371) which had devastated part of the Serbian nobility. The brothers had their own government and minted coins according to the Nemanjić style. His daughter Jelena married Byzantine Emperor Manuel II Palaiologos in 1392. He fell at the Battle of Rovine (17 May 1395), serving the Ottomans against Wallachia, fighting alongside Serbian magnates Stefan Lazarević and Marko Mrnjavčević.
  Konstantin's grandson, last Byzantine Emperor Constantine XI, was named after him, and even used the name Dragaš.
caption: Konstantin Dejanović, Kera-Tamara, Kerica, Desislava
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