Ruđić


In Piva, a historical tribe of Old Herzegovina, there was a brotherhood named Ruđić. The surname was mentioned in Church Slavonic documents of the Serbian Orthodox Hilandar monastery. The Ruđić brotherhood from Rudinice, which later dispersed elsewhere, is one of two family trees in Piva from which many Pivan families descend from. Several families are noted in Serbian ethnographic studies as having descended from the old brotherhood of Ruđić.

Anthropology

According to folklore, hajduk Bajo Pivljanin was born in Rudinice in Piva, belonging to the Ruđić brotherhood. Savatije Ljubibratić, the Serbian Orthodox metropolitan, belonged to the brotherhood.