Kaznac

Kaznac (Serbian Cyrillic: 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).^{[1][2][better source needed]} The name of the title is derived from Serbo-Croatian word kazna (English: penalty).^[3] The kaznac was a financial-taxation service, translated into Latin camerarius (itself rendered "chamberlain").^[4]

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.^[5]

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 (fl. 1280), served Helen of Anjou.^[4]
• 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)^[6]
• 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.^[7]

See also

• Serbian noble titles in the Middle Ages