Stephen II Nemanja

…in favour of his son Stefan (known as Prvovenčani, the “First-Crowned”), who in 1217 secured from Pope Honorius III the title of “king of Serbia, Dalmatia, and Bosnia.” Under the Nemanjić dynasty, which was to rule the Serb lands for the next 200 years, a powerful state emerged to dominate…

…brother was crowned (1217) as Stefan Prvovenčani (“First-Crowned”), king of the Serbian nation. Sava countered the king’s affinity to the Roman Catholic Church by traveling in 1219 to Nicaea—refuge of the exiled patriarch of Constantinople—where he received the title of autocephalous archbishop of Serbia. Upon his return to Serbia, he…