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Born around 1270 in the župa of Pilot (present-day Pult, in northern Albania),[1] his given name has not been recorded, only that he belonged to a Serbian noble family.[1][2] He was endowed with a fine intellect and a noble disposition; he had received an excellent education at the hands of the most learned men in Medieval Serbia and in Byzantium. After his education, he joined the court of the Serbian king Stefan Milutin, which he left around 1300 to join the monastery of Končul on the Ibar river.[1] After his novitiate, he went to Peć at the request of the Serbian archbishop Jevstatije, where he was made a presbyter priest.[3] After that, he progressed quickly in the ecclesiastical hierarchy of the Serbian Orthodox Church: first as abbot of Hilandar (c. 1306–1311), then as bishop of Banjska (1312–1315), and finally as archbishop from 1324 until his death in 1337.[4] He died on 19 December 1337 and was buried in one of the churches he had built in the monastery of Peć, Our Lady Hodegetria.[5]
Danilo wrote biographies of Serbian medieval kings and archbishops, including the biography of Jelena, the wife of King Stephen Uroš I of Serbia (1243–1276). His monumental work is referred to in the poetry of Serbian folklore as knjige starostavne (the ancient books) and knjige carostavne (the royal books). As a result of his work, many historical details concerning both the rulers of medieval Serbia and the members of the Nemanjić dynasty have been preserved.
Justin Sp Popović (1976). Žitija svetih (in Serbian). Izdanje Manastire sv. Ćelije kod Valjeva.
McDaniel, Gordon Lawrence (13 June 1980). The "Lives of the Serbian Kings and Archbishops by Danilo II": Textual History and Criticism (PhD). University of Washington.
Đurić, Vojislav J., ed. (1991). Arhiepiskop Danilo II i njegovo doba. Međunarodni naučni skup povodom 650 godina od smrti. Decembar 1987 [The Archbishop Danilo II and his era. International scientific symposium on the occasion of the 650th anniversary of his death. December 1987] (in Serbian). Belgrade: Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti.
