'''Stavilac''' ({{lang-sr-Cyrl|ставилац}}, literally meaning "placer") was a court title in Medieval Bosnia and Medieval Serbia in the Middle Ages.<ref name="Ćošković-2009-hbl.lzmk.hr-Kotrmanići">{{cite web |author1=Pejo Ćošković |author1-link=Pejo Ćošković |title=Tvrtko I - Kotromanići |url=https://hbl.lzmk.hr/clanak.aspx?id=249 |website=hbl.lzmk.hr |publisher=Hrvatski biografski leksikon |access-date=1 April 2021 |language=hr |date=2009 |quote=Reorganizirao je dvor preuzevši neka zvanja, službe i ceremonijal srpskoga (dijaka je zamijenio logotet, kaznaca protovestijar, naslovu stavilac odgovarala bi bizantska dvorska titula domestika i domestika stolnika).}}</ref><ref name="VeselinovićLjušić2008">{{cite book|author1=Andrija Veselinović|author2=Radoš Ljušić|title=Srpske dinastije|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gWctAQAAIAAJ|year=2008|publisher=Službene glasink|isbn=978-86-7549-921-3|page=240}}</ref> It was similar to the Byzantine court offices of ''domestikos'' and cup-bearer (''pinkernes'', known in Serbian as ''peharnik'').<ref name="VeselinovićLjušić2008"/> It had a role in the ceremony at the royal table, though the holder could be entrusted with jobs that had nothing to do with court rituals.{{sfn|Mihaljčić|2001|pp=15–28}} According to studies of Rade Mihaljčić, the ''holder'' was in charge of acquiring, preparing and serving food at the royal table.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=34}} It was a confidant duty, given to the highest and most notable nobility, which the ruler relied on in all occasions.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=34}}
==History of usage== Its oldest mention is from the Serbian court of King Stefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321), when Đuraš Vrančić had the title.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=34}} The title of ''stavilac'' ranked as the last in the hierarchy of the Serbian court, behind ''čelnik'', ''kaznac'', ''tepčija'' and ''vojvoda'', the supreme title.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=211}} It was, nevertheless, quite prestigious as it enabled its holder to be very close to the ruler.{{sfn|Mihaljčić|2001|pp=15–28}} 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> There is not much information on the title-holders at the court of King Stefan Dečanski; there is however much information on those at the court of King and Emperor Stefan Dušan (r. 1331–1355).{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=35}}
In Bosnia, this court title appears for the first time with a coronation of the first Bosnian king, Tvrtko I Kotromanić. As soon as he ascended to a Bosnian throne as a king in 1377, Tvrtko reorganized his court reflecting some of the Serbian court-office titles, ceremonials and traditions.<ref name="Ćošković-2009-hbl.lzmk.hr-Kotrmanići"/>
==List of Bosnian ''stavilac''== *Tvrtko Vlađević (1378), served King Tvrtko I *Ivan Radivojević (1392) served King Dabiša
==List of Serbian ''stavilac''== [[File:Prince_Lazar_(Ravanica_Monastery).jpg|thumb|Lazar Hrebeljanović (ca. 1329–1389), who began as ''stavilac'' at the court of Emperor Stefan Dušan, later became the most powerful nobles during the Fall of the Serbian Empire.]] *Đuraš Vrančić (?), served King Stefan Milutin.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=34}} *Miloš Vojinović ({{floruit}} 1333), served King Stefan Dušan. Son of Vojvoda Vojin.{{sfn|Blagojević|2001|p=35}} *Gradislav Sušenica, served King Stefan Dušan. (disputed<ref name="ZarkovićRadunović2002">{{cite book|author1=Božidar Zarković|author2=Dušan Radunović|author3=Vesna Sekulić |author4=Vukosava Stevović |title=Hotačka metohija: prvi hilandaroski posed u Srbiji|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Y6YRAQAAIAAJ|year=2002|publisher=Institut za srpsku kulturu|page=144|isbn=9788682797265 }}</ref>) *Vojislav Vojinović ({{circa}} 1350–55), served Emperor Stefan Dušan. Son of Vojvoda Vojin. *Lazar Hrebeljanović ({{floruit}} 1355–1362), served Emperor Stefan Dušan and Emperor Uroš V.
==See also== *Serbian noble titles *Stolnik, title in Poland and Muscovy
==References== {{reflist}}
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