Stefan Vojislav

Stefan Vojislav
Prince of the Serbs
(ὁ τῶν Σέρβων ἄρχων)[1]
Prince of Serbia[2]
Toparch of the Dalmatian kastra of Zeta and Ston
Prince of Duklja
Reign1018–1043
PredecessorDragimir
SuccessorNeda
Died1043
Burial
Church of St. Andrew, Prapratna
SpouseNeda
Issue
  • Gojislav,
  • Predimir,
  • Mihailo I,
  • Saganek,
  • Radoslav
DynastyVojislavljević (founded)
FatherDragimir
ReligionChalcedonian Christianity

Stefan Vojislav (Serbian Cyrillic: Стефан Војислав, Greek: Στέφανος Βοϊσθλάβος;[A] fl. 1034–d. 1043) was the Prince of Duklja from 1018 to 1043. Beginning in the year 1018, he served as a Byzantine governor, until 1034 when he led an unsuccessful revolt that landed him in a prison at Constantinople. He managed to escape and returned home, this time successfully gaining the independence of his statelet and expanding his rule over southern Dalmatia and its hinterland. He is the eponymous founder of the Vojislavljević dynasty.

  1. ^ Scylitzes, 408-9
  2. ^ Cedrenus, ed. Bonn, II, p. 526