Career
He held a province in northern Macedonia, around Skopje. He is an ancestor of Nikola Pavlović "Gefalija" and the Stanjević brotherhood in Montenegro. Nikola had a gospel book written and illustrated by monk Teoktist, which he donated to the Hilandar monastery of Mount Athos.
The book is now called the "Tetravangelion of Nikola Stanjević", found in London at the British Museum, collection Number.