'''Kaznac''' ({{lang-sr-cyr|казнац}}) was a court title of the state employee in medieval Bosnia and Serbia who was in charge for the treasury in the territory under his jurisdiction — ''kaznačina'' (казначина).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Florida State University slavic papers, Volumes 4-5|year=1970|publisher=Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Florida State University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dAKAQAAMAAJ&q=kaznac+title|author=Florida State University. Center for Slavic and East European Studies|access-date=26 March 2012|page=112|quote=A kaznacina is headed by a Kaznac who is a state employee, representative of the state authority in the kaznacina}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=Dragoljub: zabavan i poucan tjednik, Volume 2|year=1868|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=B_hIAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA715|access-date=26 March 2012|page=715|quote=kaznac, koji se pominje u srbskih i bosanskih listinah sa značenjem praefectus}}</ref>{{better source|date=April 2016}} The name of the title is derived from Serbo-Croatian word ''kazna'' ({{langx|en|penalty}}).<ref>{{cite book|title=The Florida State University slavic papers, Volumes 4-5|year=1970|publisher=Center for Slavic and East European Studies, Florida State University|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=4dAKAQAAMAAJ&q=kaznac+title|author=Florida State University. Center for Slavic and East European Studies|access-date=26 March 2012|page=112|quote=He also inflicts penalties, hence his title kazna-penalty in Serbo-Croat language)}}</ref> The ''kaznac'' was a financial-taxation service, translated into Latin ''camerarius'' (itself rendered "chamberlain").{{sfn|Purković|1985|p=27}}
In the Dečani chrysobulls, King Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–1331) mentioned that the court dignitaries present at the Dečani assembly were the ''kaznac'', ''tepčija'', ''vojvoda'', ''sluga'' and ''stavilac''.<ref>{{cite book|author=Srđan Šarkić|title=Srednjovekovno srpsko pravo|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=BxQlAQAAIAAJ|year=1996|publisher=Matica srpska|page=66|isbn=9788636303696}}</ref>
The title of '''''veliki kaznac''''' (велики казнац, "grand kaznac") was later transformed into ''protovestijar''.
== List of title holders ==
===Serbia=== *Vlado, served between 1274 and 1279 *Prvoslav Radojević ({{floruit}} 1280), served Helen of Anjou.{{sfn|Purković|1985|p=27}} *Mrnjan (fl. 1288), served Helen of Anjou at the court at Trebinje. *Miroslav (fl. 1306), ''kaznac'', served Stefan Milutin. *Jovan Dragoslav (fl. 1300–15), ''kaznac'' (1300), then ''veliki kaznac'' (1315), served Stefan Milutin. *Dmitar, served Stefan Milutin and Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–31){{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=21}} *Baldovin (fl. 1325–33), served Stefan Dečanski (r. 1321–31) *Gradislav Borilović, served Stefan Dušan. *Pribac, served Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–55). *Bogdan (fl. 1363), ''kaznac'' in the service of Emperor Uroš V *Tolislav
===Bosnia=== *Krasoje, served around 1378 as the last known ''kaznac'' of Bosnia and the founder of noble family Kresojevic.<ref>{{cite journal|publisher=Institute of History Sarajevo|year=1977|issue=XIII|page=31|issn=0350-1159|journal=Prilozi}}</ref>
== See also == *Serbian noble titles in the Middle Ages
== References == {{Reflist}}
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