Plamenac (
Serbian Cyrillic: Пламенац, also transliterated Plamenatz) is a Montenegrin surname, derived from the word plamen (flame), literally meaning "out of the flame".
It has origins from the Boljevići of the
Crmnica nahija in
Montenegro. Its bearers are ethnic
Serbs and
Montenegrins, of
Orthodox faith. The family descends from Ilija Bogustinović, a nobleman from Bosnia, who following
its fall to the Ottomans fled to
Zeta and became a prominent figure on the court of
Lord Ivan Crnojević. He earned a nickname Plamenac (fiery), because at the meeting on
Vranjina Island in 1492 he spoke so passionately campaigning for the war against the Turks that it seemed as the fire was coming out of his mouth, as observed by a
Venetian envoy present at the meeting.
Rufim Boljević (fl. 1673 – 1685), member of
Plamenac brotherhood and hence rarely referred to as Rufin Plamenac, Serbian Orthodox metropolitan of Cetinje
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