The
Karadordevic is a
Serbian dynastic family, founded by
Karadorde Petrovic, the
Veliki Vožd ("Grand Leader") of Serbia in the early 1800s during the
First Serbian Uprising. The relatively short-lived dynasty had an ongoing blood feud with the
Obrenovic dynasty after Karadorde's assassination in 1817, which was authorized by
Miloš Obrenovic. The two houses subsequently traded the throne for several generations. In 1903, the
Serbian Parliament chose Karadorde's grandson,
Peter Karadordevic, then living in exile, for the throne of the
Kingdom of Serbia. He was duly crowned as King Peter I, and shortly before the end of
World War I, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a
Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with Peter I as sovereign. In 1929, the Kingdom was renamed
Yugoslavia, under Alexander I, the son of Peter I. In November 1945, the throne was lost when the
League of Communists of Yugoslavia seized power, during the reign of
Peter II.