Ston

Who holds it

Name

Andrija, Miroslav's young son (Fine); others make Peter prince of all Hum by then

Title

Prince of Hum

Since

1198

Family

Hum branch of the Nemanjici

Confidence

low

See Hum and Andrija of Hum.

Lord in 1200

Andrija of Hum, a boy, through the Hum nobles (low confidence); the Latin bishop of Ston, a suffragan of Ragusa (Miroslav had refused to let the archbishop of Split consecrate one).

Allies and rivals

See Hum.

How things stand that morning

Seat of Andrija's coastal share of Hum (not pinned).

Wealth

Salt.

Threats

• Hungary on the Neretva.

Council

Not recorded.

Communities

Slavs, Latin clergy; Ragusan traders.

Fairs and markets

Not recorded.

Militia

Not recorded.

Walls and castle

A small fortified seat; the great walls are later (14th century).

Trade and crafts

Salt pans; the Neretva and coastal trade.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Hum's capital is attested; its state in 1200 is not.

On the map: Near land only.

Primary sources for Hum

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• The Chronicle of the Priest of Dioclea, Anonymous (the priest of Dioclea; Rudger, archbishop of Bar, by Zivkovic's attribution) (disputed: the 12th century on the older view, about 1295 to 1301 on the current one). The chronicle ends before 1200 and gives no event of that year. Read online
• History of the bishops of Salona and Split, by Thomas the Archdeacon, Thomas of Split (about 1266). Written two generations later by a Split churchman born about 1200. Read online
• Charters of the kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia, volume 2, 1101 to 1200 (documents of 1101 to 1200, edited 1904). The Croatian and Dalmatian charters to 1200: the acts of Duke Andrew as lord of Croatia and Dalmatia (1197 to 1204), the Hungarian kings' grants, the Templars and the bishops of Zagreb, Split, Zadar and Trogir, the communal statutes of the coastal towns, and the papal letters of 1200 to Emeric about Ban Kulin of Bosnia and heresy. Read online
• The Lives of St Simeon (Stefan Nemanja) by Sava and by Stefan the First-Crowned, Sava of Serbia (Rastko Nemanjic) and Stefan the First-Crowned (Sava's Life 1208, as the preface to the Studenica typikon (a short Life stands in the Hilandar typikon of 1199); Stefan's Life 1216). The two sons' lives of Stefan Nemanja are the Serbian witness to the situation of 1200: Nemanja's abdication at Ras in 1196 in favour of Stefan, his monastic years at Studenica and on Mount Athos, the founding of Hilandar (1198) and his death there on 13 February 1199, and, in Stefan's version written after the event, the war with the elder brother Vukan of Zeta, who seized the throne with Hungarian help in 1202. Read online