Career
He is a distant ancestor of the Petrović-Njegoš family and the Njeguši tribe. Đurađ"s father, "Bogut" or "Boguta", is believed to be the oldest known ancestor of the House of Petrovic-Njegoš - the Metropolitans and once ruling family of Montenegro. Bogut was an alive at the time of the Battle of Velbazhd (1330) and the building of Visoki Dečani, and perhaps into the 1340s.
According to tradition, and recorded by some historians, the ancestors of the Petrović family settled in Muževice at the end of the 14th century, from the Bosnia region, from the area of Zenica or Travnik.
Đurađ Bogutović had five sons (with their descendants):
Vukac (fl 1399)
Radin (fl 1399)
Herak (fl 1399)
Herak (fl April 1441), ancestor of Herakovići and Petrovići (Heraković-Popović) in Njeguši
Pribil (fl 1399)
Rajko or Rajič, ancestor of Rajičevići in Njeguši
Ostoja (fl 1399).
