Youg Bogdan

Also known as: Bogdan / Youg-Bogdan / the aged Youg Bogdan · Family: Serbians · Role: father of Tsarina Militza · First appears: Chapter V · Banovitch Strahinya · Part 1

In Chapter V · Banovitch Strahinya, Banovitch Strahinya came to Youg Bogdan for help rescuing his wife, Bogdan’s daughter. Bogdan refused to let his sons go with Strahinya, judging it foolish to face the many thousands of Turks with so few men. When he heard what his daughter had done, he was incensed and ordered his sons to pierce her with their swords. Strahinya is described as “Bogdan, his beloved father-in-law”.

In Chapter IX · Tsar Lazarus and the Tsarina Militza, Bogdan came to Kossovo at the head of his sons, including Boshko Yougovitch and Voin Yougovitch. He perished in the first onset; Tsarina Militza was his daughter.

Relationship record

Life events

• Youg Bogdan refused to let his sons accompany Banovitch Strahinya to rescue his wife.(Chapter V · Banovitch Strahinya · Part 1)
  • With: Banovitch Strahinya
  • “But Youg Bogdan, thinking that it would be foolish for so few to go and face the many thousands of bloodthirsty Turks, disapproved altogether of this, and strongly advised Banovitch to abandon the idea.”
• Youg Bogdan commands his sons to kill his sister.(Chapter V · Banovitch Strahinya · Part 4)
  • With: the wife of Strahinya
  • “the story made Youg Bogdan so incensed that he commanded his sons to pierce their sister with their swords.”
• Youg Bogdan, Tsarina Militza’s father, perished in the first onset.(Chapter IX · Tsar Lazarus and the Tsarina Militza · Part 2 · 📍 Kossovo)
  • With: Tsarina Militza
  • “And thy father, O lady, perished in the first onset.”

Chapter V · Banovitch Strahinya · Part 1

• younger kin: Banovitch Strahinya “Bogdan, his beloved father-in-law, resides at his sumptuous castle in Kroushevatz.”
• child: the wife of Strahinya “He even promised to find him a bride fairer and more worthy of him than his own faithless daughter.”
• recipient: Banovitch Strahinya “The old man rejoiced to see him, and his nine sons and their wives, as well as Bogdan's sons-in-law, of whom one was a direct descendant of King Nemanya, greeted him warmly.”

Chapter V · Banovitch Strahinya · Part 4

• child: the wife of Strahinya (The wife is identified by the context as the sons’ sister and therefore Youg Bogdan’s daughter.) “Youg Bogdan and his sons saw Strahinya covered with blood, they were greatly astonished that there should be a Turk valiant enough to wound a hero such as Strahinya. But Strahinya narrated to them the shameful conduct of his wife, and the story made Youg Bogdan so incensed that he commanded his sons to pierce their sister with their swords.”

Chapter IX · Tsar Lazarus and the Tsarina Militza · Part 1

• child: Voin Yougovitch “Lo! there now comes the aged Youg-Bogdan at the head of a line of his seven other sons! The tsarina endeavoured to stop each one in turn, but in vain. Voin Yougovitch, the eighth brother, was last in the line;”
• child: Boshko Yougovitch (The passage identifies the line as his sons; Boshko is one of the brothers in the departing line.) “Lo! there now comes the aged Youg-Bogdan at the head of a line of his seven other sons!”

Chapter IX · Tsar Lazarus and the Tsarina Militza · Part 2

• child: Tsarina Militza “And thy father, O lady, perished in the first onset.”

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Extracted from the original text of Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians (Chapters IV–XIII). Made with Rho MD.