Gradinja of Duklja
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Gradinja Branislavljević (also known as Gradhina) was the King of Duklja
Duklja
Doclea or Duklja was a medieval state with hereditary lands roughly encompassing the territories of present-day southeastern Montenegro, from Kotor on the west to the river Bojana on the east and to the sources of Zeta and Morača rivers on the north....

, from 1131 to 1146. He was the son of Dioclean Prince Branislav of Duklja and brother of Grubeša
Prince Grubeša
Grubeša Branislavljević was the prince and ruler of Duklja and Bar from 1118 to 1125. After the Byzantines defeated King George in 1118, Grubeša assumed the Doclean throne as a Byzantine protégé. The Byzantines entitled Grubeša the rule in Duklja, as well as an army that he would command against...

, the former King of Dioclea. Following the second Dioclean-Byzantine War in which King George
George of Duklja
George was a King of Duklja in 1113–1118 and again from 1125 to 1131.With his mother, Jaquinta, he opposed the rule of his cousin, Vladimir, and Raškan influence on Duklja. Jaquinta and George had Vladimir fatally poisoned in 1118 and George was crowned king that same year...

 was defeated and imprisoned in the stronghold of Oblon, the Byzantines appointed Gradhina as King of Dioclea. According to the Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja
The Chronicle of the Priest of Duklja is a medieval chronicle originally written by a Catholic monk of the Cistercian order by the name of Roger for the Croatian Ban Paul Šubić because an order form by Ban Šubić and a quote of Catholic monk have been discovered...

, Gradihna was gentle, tame, compassionate and a protector of the widows and the poor. Gradhina was a Byzantine exponent, however, the power and territorial extent of Dioclea was, in the time of his reign, greatly decreased. Gradhina was buried in the Church of Saints Sergius and Bacchus in Bojana
Bojana
-Places:* Bojana , a river in Albania and Montenegro* Ada Bojana / Bojana Island* Boyana, a quarter of Sofia, Bulgaria- People :* Bojana Jovanovski* Bojana Novakovic* Bojana Radulović* Bojana Popović* Bojana Atanasovska* Bojana Bobusic* Bojana Panić...

. Radoslav
Radoslav of Duklja
Radoslav Gradinjić was the Prince of Duklja, from 1146 to 1148.He succeeded his father, Gradinja, as ruler of Dioclea. However, Radoslav had to travel to Byzantine emperor Manuel Comenus in Constantinople to gain the authority to rule over Dioclea, which he did...

, Gradhina's son, inherited the throne in 1146.
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