Jovan Ovčarević


Jovan Ovčarević was a Habsburg Serb nobleman. He was a member of the Ovčarević family, a notable Serb family in Habsburg service in the 16th century, and was a kinsman or descendant of the earlier Petar Ovčarević, a Šajkaši commander and spy, and relative of contemporaries Mihailo Ovčarević, a Šajkaši commander, and Dimitrije Ovčarević, the captain of Gyula. Jovan Ovčarević was mentioned as accompanying a mission to the sultan in 1557, being in the entourage of Vrančić and Franja Zaj while they were legates in Constantinople. Nothing more is known of him.