Ourosh
Also known as: Prince Ourosh / Tsarevitch Ourosh · Family: Serbians · Role: tsarevitch · First appears: Chapter IV · Kralyevitch Marko; or, the Royal Prince Marko · Part 1
In Chapter IV · Kralyevitch Marko; or, the Royal Prince Marko · Part 1, as Doushan approached death, he entrusted his young son Ourosh to Marko. The account presents Marko as Ourosh’s guardian and faithful defender.
In Chapter IV · Prince Marko Tells Whose the Empire Shall Be · Part 2, Marko declares that the Empire and Imperial Crown belong to Ourosh, whom the late Tsar had chosen as successor. Ourosh calls him “my godfather Marko!” Marko also names King Voukashin as a rival who proclaimed himself sovereign Tsar rather than yield the sceptre.
Relationship record
Life events
- According to the generally accepted belief, Doushan entrusted his young son Ourosh to Marko.(Chapter IV · Kralyevitch Marko; or, the Royal Prince Marko · Part 1)
- Marko declares that the Empire and Imperial Crown belong to Ourosh as the late Tsar's chosen successor.(Chapter IV · Prince Marko Tells Whose the Empire Shall Be · Part 2)
- With: Marko
- “It is clearly stated in the records that the Empire was left to Ourosh. From father shall it pass to son. To this youth now belongs the Imperial Crown of his ancestors. It was Ourosh whom our late Tsar, on his dying day, named as his successor!”
Chapter IV · Kralyevitch Marko; or, the Royal Prince Marko · Part 1
- parent: Doushan “According to the generally accepted belief it was Marko who, a little later on, attended the Emperor as secretary and councillor of State, and was entrusted by Doushan, on the approach of death, with his young son Ourosh.”
- guardian: Marko “According to the generally accepted belief it was Marko who, a little later on, attended the Emperor as secretary and councillor of State, and was entrusted by Doushan, on the approach of death, with his young son Ourosh.”
- enemies with King Voukashin “King Voukashin not only prolonged his haughty rule to sixteen years, but absolutely refused to yield the sceptre even then, and moreover proclaimed himself sovereign Tsar.”
- benefactor: Marko “tradition ever extols and glorifies his son Marko as the faithful defender of Prince Ourosh, as the great avenger of national wrongs”
Chapter IV · Prince Marko Tells Whose the Empire Shall Be · Part 2
- koom: Marko “Behold my godfather Marko!”
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Extracted from the original text of Hero Tales and Legends of the Serbians (Chapters IV–XIII). Made with Rho MD.