Contributing to Srbljak theory is the fact that the family celebrated St Clement as their Slava until 1890, while the patron saint of Vasojevići, i.e. Grigorije Božović (1880–1945) claimed that the family were Srbljaci (natives) in Vasojevići territory. Most likely, Karađorđe's ancestors hailed from Vasojevići. According to Radoš Ljušić, Karađorđe's ancestors most likely hailed from Vasojevići, but he has said there is no certain historical information on Karađorđe's ancestors or where they came from, folklore being the only real source. Some conjecture has arisen about where the family ended up after arriving in Šumadija.

Serbian historiography accepted the theory that Karađorđe's ancestors came from Vasojevići. In English, it is typically spelled Karadjordjevic while pronunciation is roughly anglicized as Karageorgevich, and was in previous times rendered also as Kara-Georgevich.Īccording to some researchers, Karađorđe's paternal ancestors most likely migrated from the Highlands (in what is today Montenegro) to Šumadija during the Second Great Serb Migration in 1737–39 under the leadership of Patriarch Šakabenta, as a result of the Austro-Turkish War (in which Serbs took part). In November 1945 the family lost their throne when the League of Communists of Yugoslavia seized power during the reign of Peter II.

In 1929 the kingdom was renamed Yugoslavia, under Alexander I, the son of Peter I. He was duly crowned as King Peter I, and shortly before the end of World War I in 1918, representatives of the three peoples proclaimed a Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats and Slovenes with Peter I as sovereign. Following the assassination of the Obrenović King Alexander I of Serbia in 1903, the Serbian Parliament chose Karađorđe's grandson, Peter I Karađorđević, then living in exile, to occupy the throne of the Kingdom of Serbia. The two houses subsequently vied for the throne for several generations.

After Karađorđe's assassination in 1817, Miloš Obrenović founded the House of Obrenović. In the course of the 19th century the relatively short-lived dynasty was supported by the Russian Empire and was opposed to the Austria-Hungary-supported Obrenović dynasty. Karađorđevići / Карађорђевићи, pronounced ) dynasty is a Serb family, founded by Karađorđe Petrović (1768-1817), the veliki vožd ('grand leader') of Serbia during the First Serbian Uprising of 1804-1813. King of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (1918–1929).

Karadjordjevici stablo porodicno