Bagaš noble family

Serbian noble family

Bagaš
Country	Serbian Empire
Founded	before 1356
Dissolution	after 1384

The Bagaš family (Serbian: Багаш, Greek: Pagases) was a Serbian noble family family that served the Serbian Kingdom and Empire.

History

The word Bagaš is derived from the Old Slavic measurement with the same name.^[1]

The family hailed from Kastoria.^[2]^{[better source needed]} Some scholars believe that the Bagaš family was originally from Vranje in Serbia^[3] while some other scholars believe that historical sources do not confirm it.^[4] Some scholars believe the Bagaš family was of Vlach origin.^[5]

Members

Antonije Bagaš (Antonios Pagases), nobleman, took monastic vows in Mount Athos between 1356–1366, taking the name Arsenios (Arsenije). He bought and restored the ruined Athonite monastery of Saint Paul with the help of Nikola Radonja and became its abbott.^[2]^[6]
Nikola Bagaš (Nicholas Baldouin Pagases), nobleman, donated the monastery of Mesonesiotissa near Kastoria, Kastoria, together with villages, churches and other property to the monastery his brother Antonije in 1384.^[6] He was married to the daughter of Radoslav Hlapen.

There were several Serbian noblemen to which Antonije and Nikola might be related, such as Baldovin and Župan Maljušat, son of knez Baldovin who controlled region of Vranje.^[7]^[8] Based on Nikola's surname (Baldovin Bagaš) some scholars concluded that they were indeed related.^[9]

References

^ Zbornik za narodni život i običaje južnih slavena, p. 176, Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1918
^ ^a ^b Rosenqvist, p. 63
^ Moravska Srbija: ljudi i dela (in Serbian). Narodni muzej. 1971. p. 15. Српски књижевник Антоније Багаш, из познате феудалне породице из Врања, превео је „от грчскаго писапија на србски језик" Андријанти (беседе о статуама) Јована Златоуског, зборник с поучењем Јефрема Сирског
^ Ivan M. Đorđević; Dragan Vojvodić; Miodrag Marković (2008). Studije srpske srednjovekovne umetnosti (in Serbian). Zavod za Udžbenike. p. 489. ISBN 9788617147400. Найме, Никола Багаш Балдовин, за кога ]е накнадно утврЬено да ]е био у Водену а не у Костуру142, може бити иста личност са „Николом... унуком Балдовина" из Вран>а али и не мора.
^ Đorđe Sp Radojičić (1967). Književna zbivanja i stvaranja kod Srba u srednjem veku i u tursko doba (in Serbian). Matit︠s︡a srpka. p. 154. Retrieved 23 November 2013. Багаши су свакако били влаш- кога порекла.
^ ^a ^b Angold, pp. 160-161
^ Vranjski Glasnik (in Serbian). 1965. p. 32.
^ Ivan M. Đorđević; Dragan Vojvodić; Miodrag Marković (2008). Studije srpske srednjovekovne umetnosti. Zavod za Udžbenike. p. 490. ISBN 9788617147400.
^ Đorđe Sp Radojičić (1967). Književna zbivanja i stvaranja kod Srba u srednjem veku i u tursko doba. Matit︠s︡a srpka. p. 154. „Да је кнез Балдовин припадао породици Багаш (Пагасис) закљу- чује се по томе што се крајем XIV века један српски феудалац у пределу Костура звао Никола Багаш Балдовин.

Sources

Jan Olof Rosenqvist, Interaction and isolation in late Byzantine culture, Google book
Pavlikianov, Cyril (2001). The Medieval Aristocracy on Mount Athos: Philological and Documentary Evidence for the Activity of Byzantine, Georgian and Slav Aristocrats and Eminent Churchmen in the Monasteries of Mount Athos from the 10th to the 15th Century. Sofia: Center for Slavo-Byzantine Studies. ISBN 9789540715957.
Eastern Christianity Michael Angold
Through the looking glass: Byzantium through British eyes : papers from the twenty-ninth Spring Symposium of Byzantine Studies, London, March 1995