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Updated: May 31, 2025
In June, 1696, Danilo Petrovitch, of Nyegushi, who, be it noted, was already in holy orders, was chosen as Vladika. A man of well-known courage such as the country needed, he accepted office, but was not consecrated till 1700. Till then the Vladikas of Montenegro had been consecrated by the Serb Patriarch at Ipek.
Peter was followed by Danilo II., a weak ruler, but his reign is famous for two events the cession of the spiritual authority of the Prince-Bishop to an Archbishop and the "Great Charter" of Montenegro. Danilo's reforms, however, led the Turk again to attack his invincible foe, only again to end in great disaster.
It was lovely hair and it fell down over Beauty's shoulders like a mantle of gold. At mere sight of it Danilo was so overcome with emotion that he sighed. "What's that?" Beauty cried. "There's some one in my chamber!" The serving maid looked under the bed and behind the chairs and in the corners. "There's no one here, my lady." "That's strange!" Beauty said.
"Come again when you've got more gold!" they shouted after him. Like a man in a dream Danilo rode back to the old woman's hut. "Now, my son, are you satisfied?" she asked him. "Are you ready now to go home and settle down like a sensible young man?" "Oh, granny!" Danilo raved. "Such a finger! I must see that finger again if it cost me my whole fortune!"
One day he came upon a funny looking little cap. "I wonder whose this was," he thought to himself. He went to a mirror and tried the cap on. Then a strange thing happened. The moment the cap touched his head, Danilo disappeared. "Ah!" he cried, "it's a magic cap and the moment I put it on I become invisible! Now I can slip into Peerless Beauty's chamber and see her lovely face!"
Who wants my fresh sweet grapes!" Now it was not the season for grapes, so Peerless Beauty when she heard the cry was surprised and said to her serving maid: "Go quickly and buy me some grapes from that huckster and mind you don't eat one yourself!" The serving maid hurried out to Danilo and he sold her some of the red grapes.
The prisoners, according to Montenegrin custom, were hideously mutilated and the British report of them as they passed Corfu on their return struck horror in Europe. By this victory Montenegro gained more land, but owed it to the valour of Mirko rather than to Danilo. Danilo's best work was the codification and reformation of the unwritten law of the land.
"He regards as his friend him who gives him gold," says a contemporary; "who gives naught is his arch-enemy." Danilo continued negotiating with France, and Medakovitch carried the 5,000 ducats out of the country to the Russian Consul-General at Ragusa. Danilo formed a crafty plan.
Having thus married his elder children to Russian and Serb he then turned to the Triple Alliance and married Helena to the Crown Prince of Italy, thus securing an ally, as he hoped, across the Adriatic; and his heir Prince Danilo to the daughter of the Grand Duke of Mecklenburg Strelitz. For his daughter Anna he selected Prince Joseph Battenburg.
Mourning added to the general gloom, for the two infant sons of Prince Mirko, the only direct heirs to the throne, had died within a month or two of each other of tubercular meningitis. Baby Stefan had been playfully called Stefan Dushan II, with the hope that he would reign at Prizren and he was dead. All hope of a child to Prince Danilo had been given up; much had died with Baby Stefan.
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