Đurađ Branković, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Đurađ Branković

Despot of Serbia

Date of Birth: 01-Jan-0001

Place of Birth: Pristina, Pristina District, Kosovo

Date of Death: 02-Jan-1457

Profession: sovereign

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Ðurad Brankovic (pronounced [d??ûrad?? bra??ko??it??]; Serbian Cyrillic: ????? ?????????; Hungarian: Brankovics György; 1377 – 24 December 1456) was the Serbian Despot from 1427 to 1456.
He was de facto the last Serbian medieval ruler.
He was participiant in the battle of Ankara (1402) and Ottoman Interregnum (1403-1413).
During the reign, he was at the same time a vassal of the Ottoman sultans and Hungarian kings.
Despot George was neutral during the Polish-Lithuanian (1444) and Hungarian-Wallachian (1448) crusades.
In 1455, during an clashes with Hungarians the old despot Ðurad was wounded and imprisoned after which young Sultan Mehmed II launched the besieged of Belgrade where was located large Hungarian garrison.
Due to the complications of wounding, despot Ðurad died at the end of 1456.
After his death, Serbia, Bosnia and Albania (West Balkans) was practical annexed by sultan Mehmed II, which ended after more centuries of conquest Byzantine lands. He collected a large library of Serbian, Slavonic, Latin, and Greek manuscripts and made his capital Smederevo a centre of Serbian culture.
He was the first of the Brankovic dynasty to hold the Serbian monarchy.