Đurađ Branković, Serbian despot from 1427 to 1456 and a baron of the Kingdom of Hungary, is the first of the House of Branković to hold the Serbian monarchy.

Deemed by contemporaries as the richest monarch in all of Europe; the French knight Bertrand de la Broquierre had stated the despot's annual income from the gold and silver mines of Novo Brdo (near Gnjilane in Kosovo) amassed to about two hundred thousand Venetian ducats.

Among other of the Despot's sources of income, there are his possessions in the Kingdom of Hungary, for which expenses are covered by the Hungarian crown.

The annual income from them alone is estimated to fifty thousand ducats.

His elder daughter Mara had become one of the wives of Murad II of the Ottoman Empire; his younger daughter Catherine is the wife of the murdered Ulrich II of Celje.

Đurađ dies on December 24, 1456, and is succeeded by his son Lazar, his elder sons Grgur and Stefan having been blinded in 1441 on Murad’s orders.