Yet a third tradition attributes the foundation of the monastery to a patrician by the name Nikitas.

There is disagreement about the date of foundation of the monastery and also over by whom it was founded.

The foundation of the monastery was traditionally ascribed to Charlemagne in 785.

Following the foundation of the monastery, a new town was built in the area.

He oversaw the foundation of the monastery in Trzebnica.

Where the arrow landed would become the most central point of the foundations of the monastery.

The foundations of the medieval monastery were excavated by Soviet archaeologists in 1961.

By 1341 the foundations of the monastery were well established.

This date remains generally for being the foundation of the monastery by the order of Franciscan monks.

Indeed, the epithet Dečanski refers to the king's foundation of the monastery.