Radic Crnojević, a lord of the Djurasevic-Crnojević…

Radic Crnojević, a lord of the Djurasevic-Crnojević clan who maintains a domain in Upper Zeta, rebels at the end of April 1396 against the rule of the Balšićs.

Radic and his brother Dobrivoje take the Grbalj and lay siege to Kotor.

Djurdje has gained the disfavor of the Orthodox Serb commoners, who support the takeover of the excessively religious Orthodox Crnojevićs.

Gaining the support of the Pastrovic clan, they move to battle Djurdje himself in May, but he completely defeats the Crnojevićs and kills Radič, managing to acquire a part of the Crnojević domain.

Soon a new enemy arises at the west; Bosnian nobleman Sandalj Hranic Kosaka seizes large parts of land quickly and conquers Budva and Kotor, making a deal with the Pastrovics, and managing to win the protection of the Venetians, who proclaim him the legitimate ruler of Budva and Zeta itself.

The Djurasevic subgroup of the Crnojevics comes to prominence in Upper Zeta, though they make an agreement and join Djuradj, seeing a common enemy in Duke Sandalj.

They aid him in the struggle against Sandalj, taking the first fronts by retaking all the lands from Budva to Spic, as well as the Churchland of Saint Miholj in the Bay of Kotor, the Serbian Orthodox religious center in Zeta.