more death_date death_place succession birth_place title issue titles article_title reign
no after 1348 serbian empire serbian imperial magnate serbian kingdom '' despot '' of the serbian empire altoman '' title at that time despot '' -lrb- деспот -rrb- , highest court ivaniš -lrb- magnate -rrb-
 '' despot '' -lrb- 1348 -rrb-
ivaniš -lrb- magnate -rrb-

ivaniš -lrb- , 1348 -rrb- was a serbian magnate -lrb- `` velikaš '' -rrb- who served emperor stefan dušan -lrb- r. 1331 -- 55 -rrb- as `` despot '' .
he is mentioned in emperor dušan 's charter of the monastery of the holy archangels near prizren , dated 1348 , in which he calls ivaniš a `` parent of my empire '' .
not much is known about him , though his high dignitary title and the fact that dušan called him `` his parent '' without a doubt shows that he was a close relative with the royal family .
ivaniš had possessions in the toplica region and granted one of his villages to the monastery .
ivaniš and then his son , altoman , held a province in toplica , evidently near the core of the future province of lazar hrebeljanović .
his son altoman married a sister of lazar hrebeljanović and had a son , ivaniš , who died between 1372 and 1389 , and was buried at visoki dečani .
some historians earlier believed that ivaniš was related to lazar 's wife , milica nemanjić .
some did also try to connect him to monk dorotej of hilandar , who is known to have held the `` despot '' title prior to his monastic vows , and was the ktetor of the drenča monastery in rasina , although his secular name is not preserved .
