He was a son of Zavida, a prince of the house of Vukanović that briefly held the appanage of Zahumlje.
[1] Stracimir was given the oblasts of West Morava to rule as a Župan (prince, the second highest title) following Byzantium's division of the Serb lands by Manuel I.
In 1166 Stefan Nemanja overthrew Tihomir in a coup and had him and his brothers, Stracimir and Miroslav, expelled to Byzantium in 1167/1168.
Tihomir drowned in a river and the other brothers were stripped of their titles, with Nemanja becoming ruler of All Serbia.
When Stefan Nemanja besieged and retook control of Duklja in the 1180s, Stracimir and Miroslav attacked the forces of Doclean ruler and kinsman Mihailo.