Kesar Novak

Kesar Novak () was a 14th-century Serbian nobleman that held the region of Lake Prespa during the Serbian Empire of Uroš the Weak (r. 1355–1371).

Biography

Novak held the title of Caesar, and is hence also known as Kesar Novak. He had a Greek wife, Kali, with whom he had a daughter Marija (Maria) and a son Amiral (Amiralis).

Among his endowments are the cave-church of Bogorodica (Holy Virgin Eleusa) on the island of Maligrad where frescoes and Greek inscriptions of his family exist dating to 1369.

References

Sources

• Stari srpski spomenici u Južnoj Srbiji, Dr Vlad. R. Petković, 1924
• The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen DuÅ¡an (1331-1355) and his successors, by George Christos Soulis, page 214-5
• Гоце Ангеличин - Жура
• Ivan M. Đorđević, Zidno slikarstvo srpske vlastele u doba Nemanjića (Wall-Paintings of the Serbian Nobility of the Nemanide Era) OCLC 34957313, sl. 84 i 85
• Tania Velmans, La Peinture murale byzantine à la fin du Moyen âge, Volume 1