Personal Life
Vladislav the Grammarian was born in the village of Novo Brdo (in present-day Kosovo), in the Serbian Despotate. Novo Brdo fell to the Ottomans in 1455, and the Despotate fell by 1459. Historians assert that he received his education in the school of Constantine of Kostenets. In 1455 he moved to the village of Mlado Nagorichane, just north of Kumanovo. Vladislav spent most of his life in a monastery at the foot of the mountain Skopska Crna Gora. There is evidence that he stayed in the Rila monastery as well. It is there that he wrote On St. John's Relics and other works on Bulgarian patron Saint John of Rila.
Klaus Trot notes his language bears features of Serbian speech from vicinity of Novo Brdo.
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