father predecessor successor death_date religion death_place title issue article_title name reign
hvalimir hvalimir '' unknown '' 1018 eastern christianity kotor prince of travunia and zachlumia vojislav dragimir of travunia and zachlumia
 dragimir before 1000 -- 1018
dragimir of travunia and zachlumia

dragimir -lrb- serbian cyrillic : Драгимир ; † 1018 -rrb- or dragomir -lrb- Драгомир -rrb- was ruler of travunia and zachlumia , medieval serbian principalities located in present-day regions of herzegovina and south dalmatia , from an unknown date before 1000 to 1018 .
the only preserved medieval source that mentions dragimir is the chronicle of the priest of duklja , specifically its chapters 34 -- 37 .
chapter 34 relates that `` king '' chvalimir divided his domain among his sons , giving zenta to his first-born petrislav , travunia and zachlumia to dragimir , and podgoria to the youngest miroslav .
after miroslav died without an heir , his land was taken over by petrislav , who thus ruled all of duklja -lrb- zenta and podgoria -rrb- .
in 1009 or 1010 , bulgarian emperor samuel occupied dragimir 's lands , together with duklja , bosnia , and raška .
dragimir retreated before the emperor 's army on a mountain , but was soon invited by samuel to come down and resume ruling travunia and zachlumia as his vassal .
the emperor had previously made a similar arrangement in duklja with jovan vladimir , son and successor of petrislav .
vladimir was killed in 1016 by samuel 's son 's successor ivan vladislav who was killed at the end of 1017 .
in the first half of 1018 , dragimir set off for duklja accompanied by his soldiers to establish himself as its ruler , since his nephew vladimir died without an heir .
when he came to kotor , the town 's inhabitants prepared a banquet for him on a small island in the bay of kotor .
dragimir went there with only a handful of his men , who could not defend him against the kotorans who had actually decided to kill him .
he ran away into a church , but the kotorans opened its roof and killed him by throwing beams and stones on him .
after that , his soldiers returned to travunia .
dragimir had a son , stefan vojislav , who would become ruler of duklja in the 1030s , and the founder of the house of vojislavljević .
