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Stevo Vasojević

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Parents
  
Stefan Konstantin

Grandparents
  
Stefan Milutin, Ana Terter, Elizabeth of Hungary, Queen of Serbia

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Great-grandparents
  
Helen of Anjou, Stephen V of Hungary

Stevo Vasojević or Vasojević Stevo (Serbian Cyrillic: Васојевић Стево), is a character in the Kosovo Cycle of Serbian epic poetry and a legendary ancestor of the Vasojevići tribe, the largest tribe in the Montenegrin Highlands. According to the epics (such as Pogibija Pavla Orlovića i Steva Vasojevića na Kosovu), he was a nobleman who fought and died at the Battle of Kosovo (1389).

It is known that Stefan Konstantin had a son, Stefan Vasoje (or Vaso), and it is claimed that he was the father of Stevo Vasojević. According to the story the Vasojevići are descendants of a Vaso (the eponymous founder), who was born in Prizren and served as a vojvoda (general) during the reign of Emperor Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–1355). His son, Vasojević Stevo, mentioned in epic poems about the Battle of Kosovo under the name of Musić Stevan (Мусић Стеван), was the vojvoda in Sjenica. After the battle and his death, his descendants, the Vasojevići, as uskoks turned for Herzegovina and came to Foča, and from there turned to the south, southeast and east, and across Montenegro arrived at Nožice in Lijeva Rijeka, where they settled.

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Stevo Vasojević Wikipedia