ruler was the main reason he was called "the weak", and also the reason he was canonized 211 years after his death. Stefan Uroš V was canonized by the Serbian Orthodox Church. His body is kept in the Jazak monastery on Fruška Gora mountain. Legacy Today, Stefan Uroš V is viewed mostly in contrast to his able and strong-willed father, as a lacking and indecisive ruler, unable to keep the Serbian nobility under his control, whose weak and unassertive personality greatly contributed to the fall of the Empire and the eventual destruction of the Serbian state by the Ottomans. In Serbian folklore and epic poems he is often described as a just, well-intentioned ruler of pleasant appearance but weak character. While this view is popular among historians as well, some argue that he was not especially incompetent in his role as Emperor of Serbia, and that the decline of the empire was much less spectacular and started much later into his rule than popular opinion suggests. For a long time, it was considered a historical fact that he was murdered by his co-ruler, Vukašin Mrnjavčević, but eventually Vukašin was proven to have died before the Emperor. In 1825 Stefan Stefanović, a Serbian writer living in the Austrian Empire wrote a tragic play called The Death of Uroš V, which drew inspiration from both facts and folk tradition about Uroš, including the aforementioned belief that he was killed by King Vukašin. See also List of Serbian monarchs Serbian nobility conflict (1369) History of Serbia References Sources Translated with small changes from small encyclopedia "Sveznanje" published by "Narodno delo", Belgrade, in 1937 which is today in public domain. |- 14th-century Serbian emperors 14th-century Serbian monarchs Eastern Orthodox monarchs Nemanjić dynasty 1336 births 1371 deaths Burials at Serbian Orthodox monasteries and churches Serbian people of Bulgarian descent Eastern Orthodox royal saints Serbian saints of the Eastern Orthodox Church Royal reburials Sons of emperors