ШЕСТОКРИЛОВИЋИ историја и традиција
ŠESTOKRILOVIĆ FAMILY history and tradition

Summary/Abstract: According to tradition, the Šestokrilovićs were one of the oldest families of Perast. One of twelve kazadas (brotherhoods) was named after them. Very few data have been preserved about the family. There is no reliable information about their origin, about when and from where they settled in Perast, how and when they disappeared (went extinct) from this town in the Bay of Kotor. The Šestokrilović family (Miloš Šestokrilović) was mentioned for the first time in the mid-12th century, during the conflicts between Bosnian ban Borić and Dubrovnik. This event was for the first time recorded in the work of Ragusan Mauro Orbini created in 1601. The Šestokrilovićs were not mentioned in the following several centuries. Still, one of the kazadas was named after them. Based on this, it may be concluded that the Šestokrilovićs, although sources do not support this hypothesis, probably played an important role in the life of Perast. There is also another possibility – that the kazada was named after Miloš Šestokrilović, whom one of the families comprising the kazada considered their real or invented predecessor. There are few material remains in Perast which we can relate to the family, i.e. the Šestokrilović kazada. In the 16th and 17th centuries, sources also mention the Islamised Šestokrilovićs. We found them in Novi, Ulog, the Neretva nahiye, in the Cetina area. The Šestokrilovićs also found their place in folk poetry. They are mostly mentioned as the heroes of Muslim folk poems.

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