Stavilac

[1][2] It was similar to the Byzantine court offices of domestikos and cup-bearer (pinkernes, known in Serbian as peharnik).

[3] According to studies of Rade Mihaljčić, the holder was in charge of acquiring, preparing and serving food at the royal table.

[4] Its oldest mention is from the Serbian court of King Stefan Milutin (r. 1282–1321), when Đuraš Vrančić had the title.

[7] In Bosnia, this court title appears for the first time with a coronation of the first Bosnian king, Tvrtko I Kotromanić.

As soon as he ascended to a Bosnian throne as a king in 1377, Tvrtko reorganized his court reflecting some of the Serbian court-office titles, ceremonials and traditions.

Lazar Hrebeljanović (ca. 1329–1389), who began as *stavilac* at the court of Emperor Stefan Dušan, later became the most powerful nobles during the Fall of the Serbian Empire .