Kesar Novak

*Kesar* Novak *the Serb*
Kesar Novak the Serb
caesar of Lake Prespa
	Fresco depicting him found in Saint Mary's Church.
Wife	Kali
Issue	Amiral; Marija

Novak the Serb (Srbin 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.^[1] He had a Greek wife, Kali, with whom he had a daughter Marija (Maria) and a son Amiral (Amiralis).^[2]

Among his endowments are the cave-church of Bogorodica (Holy Virgin Eleusa^[3]) on the island of Maligrad where frescoes and Greek inscriptions of his family exist dating to 1369.^[4]

References

^ Macedonia, by T R Georgevitch, page p. 47
^ Tania Velmans, page 178
^ Scripta & e-scripta, Vol 5, page 196
^ Jirecek, Geschichte , I, 1-33

Sources

Stari srpski spomenici u Južnoj Srbiji, Dr Vlad. R. Petković, 1924
The Serbs and Byzantium during the reign of Tsar Stephen Dušan (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

New title	Caesar of Prespa under Vukašin Mrnjavčević fl. 1369	Succeeded by ?

[1] Macedonia, by T R Georgevitch, page p. 47

[2] Tania Velmans, page 178

[3] Scripta & e-scripta, Vol 5, page 196

[4] Jirecek, Geschichte , I, 1-33

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