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Ivana Komatina

THE GREAT KINGDOM FROM THE BEGINNING:

CORONATION OF STEPHEN NEMANJI
AND THE TRADITION OF THE DIOCLEAN KINGDOM

Summary

Stephen Nemanji was crowned King of all Serbian and Maritime

Lands by the legate sent by Pope Honorius III, in the church of St. Peter and Paul
in Ras. We know these details thanks to the sources of Latin provenance: the
History of Thomas the Archdeacon and the Chronicle of Andrew Dandolo.
Regarding the place of coronation, a later papal act from the 16th century reveals
that it was the church of St. Peter and Paul in Novi Pazar. However, in the
Serbian hagiographies dedicated to St. Sava, as well as in somewhat later
genealogies and annals, a different tradition was recorded. The hagiographers
of St. Sava, Domentijan and Teodosije, stated that Sava crowned Stephen king
in the ia Monastery, and according to them this occurred after the
establishment of the Serbian Archbishopric in 1218/1219. Although these
statements were rejected by scholars long ago, what awakens the attention of
researchers is that Domentijan, unlike Teodosije, did not conceal that the royal
crown was brought from Rome and that, according to him, Sava sent an epistle
to the then Pope. As Stephen repeatedly sought royal crown from the Pope since
1199 (first of the three missions), the paper raises the question as to what
mission and letter of Stephen could be the source for Domentijan when writing
about the mentioned epistle in the Life of St. Sava. Presumably, it was the second
mission of Stephen and the letter sent on that occasion in 1217 that could serve
Domentijan as a source for the story about the epistle, but unfortunately it was
not preserved, or the whole paragraph about the epistle in the Life of St. Sava is
just Domentijans construction. It is interesting that when speaking about the
mission to Rome sent to acquire the royal crown, Domentijan denotes bishop
Methodius as the bearer of the epistle, the more so because Methodius was
mentioned as the bearer in another letter, which Stephen sent to the Pope in
1220 (his third known mission to the Pope). However, the content of the letter
from 1220 is completely different from what Domentijan presents as a content
of the epistle, and above all in it Stephen titles himself as already a rex
coronatus. Domentijan was probably remembering the embassy to Rome in
1220, but as the coronation in his text happened only after the creation of the
Serbian Archbishopric, in order to exalt his teacher Sava as the one who

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awarded the crown to Stephen, he attributed the role of the previous (second)
mission of 1217 to the later one (third mission) of 1220.
Domentijan among other things notes that Sava wanted to crown his
brother king after the first fatherland of their kingdom, the place called
Dioclea, which is called the great kingdom from the beginning. The
statement the great kingdom from the beginning is in scholarly works most
commonly identified with the Kingdom of Dioclea. In this way, the
coronation of Stephen would rely upon the tradition of the Kingdom of
Dioclea of the Serbian rulers Michael and Bodin from the eleventh century.
However, following the sources from the eleventh and twelfth centuries, which
typically reflect the title of the Serbian rulers of the time, it becomes clear that
the Kingdom of Dioclea did not exist, but it was the Serbian kingdom. After
all, neither Domentijan determined it in that way, either geographically or
ethnically. However, the Kingdom of Dioclea was created in the late twelfth
and early thirteenth century, and its creator, as the sources testify, was Vukan
Nemanji, who carried the title of rex Dioclie et Dalmatiae. Nevertheless, this
title was restricted to Dioclea and was not related to other Serbian lands. Vukan
himself wanted, with the help of King Emeric, to obtain the royal crown from
the Pope and become the King of Serbia. When Stephen finally got the royal
crown from Rome in 1217, he always emphasized that he was the first, the
crowned one, the firstcrowned king, and Vukans descendants were deprived
of any possibility to revive the tradition of his Kingdom of Dioclea. Therefore,
there is no doubt that the independent activity of Vukan in Dioclea could have
prompted Stephen to present himself before the Pope as the true successor to
the old royal tradition. On the other hand, Domentijan himself, who wrote the
Life of St. Sava during the reign of King Stephen Uro , and was instructed by
him, could also have intended, or even been obliged, to emphasize the
legitimacy of the Rascian rulers (who ruled from Rasa, not from Dioclea) in
this part of the Life, and even in the whole work, to mark him as the sole
sovereign Serbian king, and to make an ideological link between the Kingdom
of Stephen and the great kingdom from the beginning of Michael and Bodin.
Keywords: Stephen Nemanji, Domentijan, Sava Nemanji, Vukan Nemanji,
Innocent III, Honorius III, Dioclea, Kingdom of Dioclea, ia, coronation.

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