Kesar Novak

Kesar Novak the Serb
Fresco
Reign	Lord of [Lake Prespa]
Wife	Kali
Issue Amiral Marija
Detail Titles and styles caesar
Religion	Orthodox Christianity

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). He 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

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

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