That our history is still sufficiently unexplored is evidenced by the fact of interpreting the personality of Kraljevic Marko. He is often approached from two points of view - negation, as a Turkish vassal and traitor, and excessively positive - as a Serbian superhero. It is true that Marko Kraljević was a knight who in his time respected the great respect of his contemporaries.
When Marko Kraljevic is mentioned, it is usually immediately added that he was a Turkish vassal and a marginal person. The first reliable information about him comes from 1361, when he was the head of the embassy of the Serbian Empire in the negotiations in Dubrovnik. From then until his death in 1395, he was at the top of the government all the time and among those people who led the Serbian people in dramatic historical circumstances. He became a vassal only when all his Christian neighbors either disappeared from the historical scene or became Turkish vassals themselves. Although many went into exile from Serbia in those difficult times, including his own brothers, Marko Kraljevic remained with the Serbian people and was the last Serbian ruler to survive in these parts.
Marko Kraljevic was a soldier, a knight, a nobleman, but also someone who was very attached to his family. He grew up in a military family, which owed its success, primarily to its military skills. His father Vukasin was extremely ambitious, which left a deep mark on Marko as well. That is how Marko spent the first part of his life, youth and his first two marriages in the shadow of his ambitious father, Vukasin Mrnjavcevic. The behavior of Marko Kraljevic from the time when he was an independent ruler shows that he was actually very different from his father. Vukasin used every opportunity to win a new piece of power, until he finally grew into the most powerful person in the empire.
Despite the fact that from the very beginning of his reign he faced the revenge of other Serbian authorities, as well as other difficulties, Marko always tried to maintain good relations with other Christians. He was not vindictive, but provided help and understanding. Thus, when his wife Jelena left him and fled first to Montenegro, and then to his brother Toma in the town of Janjina, he still allowed Tomi to donate his property, which he had in Marko's state, to the monastery in the name of his recently deceased daughter.
With this act, Marko showed his chivalrous side, and despite the woman's infidelity, he understands her brother's parental grief.By such and similar actions, Marko secured great respect from his contemporaries, who remembered and retold his words and actions.
Marko Kraljevic lost his lifeMay 17, 1395 in the battle of Rovine..
