Coronation of Tvrtko I.

Seal of King Tvrtko I (drawing). On his right the coat of arms of the Nemanjids (Serbia) and on his left the coat of arms of Kotromanić (Bosnia).

The Ban of Bosnia Tvrtko I. Kotromanić was crowned the first king of Bosnia on October 26, 1377 . His full coronation title was " King of Raszien , Bosnia and the Coastal Country " ( Latin rex Rasciae, Bosniae, maritimarurnque partium ). Tvrtko derived his claim to the Serbian throne from the relationship between the Kotromanićs and the Nemanjids . With the acceptance of the title of king Tvrtko called himself Stefan Tvrtko ( ancient Greek Στέφανος , Latin Stephanus = the crowned one ).

In traditional historiography, the Serbian Orthodox Mileševa Monastery , which had only recently come under the Bosnian rule, is considered the place of coronation . The monastery was especially important because of the grave of Sava , who is venerated as a saint. The coronation site has been questioned several times since the first half of the 20th century, but especially since archaeological discoveries in the 1960s. Tvrtko I. is said to have been crowned instead in the church of Mile (today Arnautovići) in the area of Visoko in central Bosnia. Some historians even suspected that Tvrtko was crowned twice, in Mile as King of Bosnia and in Mileševa as ruler of Serbia.

Individual evidence

↑ According to a document of April 10, 1378, which was written in Žrnovnica in the territory of the Republic of Ragusa (today Dubrovnik ) and confirmed by the parish of Trstivnica on June 17 of the same year.
↑ The mentioned document of April 10, 1378 speaks of a coronation "in the Serbian country" without giving a location. In his work Regno de gli Slavi (Kingdom of the Slavs) from 1601, the Dubrovnik Benedictine and historian Mavro Orbini names the Mileševa monastery as the place of coronation, which he dates to the year 1376 (!). Cf. Srećko Matko Džaja : Denomination and nationality of Bosnia and Herzegovina: pre-emancipatory phase 1463–1804 (= Southeast European work . No. 8 ). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52571-9 , p. 227 (also dissertation).
↑ ^a ^b Marko Perojević: Kralj Stjepan Tvrtko I. In: Hrvatsko kulturno društvo Napredak (ed.): Povijest Bosne i Hercegovine . tape I . Sarajevo 1998, p. 313-349, here p. 314 .
↑ Pavao Anđelić: Bobovac i Kraljeva Sutjeska: stolna mjesta bosanskih vladara u XIV i XV stoljeću (= Biblioteka Kulturno nasljeđe ). Veselin Masleša, 1973, p. 230 .

[1] According to a document of April 10, 1378, which was written in Žrnovnica in the territory of the Republic of Ragusa (today Dubrovnik ) and confirmed by the parish of Trstivnica on June 17 of the same year.

[2] The mentioned document of April 10, 1378 speaks of a coronation "in the Serbian country" without giving a location. In his work Regno de gli Slavi (Kingdom of the Slavs) from 1601, the Dubrovnik Benedictine and historian Mavro Orbini names the Mileševa monastery as the place of coronation, which he dates to the year 1376 (!). Cf. Srećko Matko Džaja : Denomination and nationality of Bosnia and Herzegovina: pre-emancipatory phase 1463–1804 (= Southeast European work . No. 8 ). Oldenbourg Verlag, Munich 1984, ISBN 3-486-52571-9 , p. 227 (also dissertation).

[Povijest_Bosne-3] Marko Perojević: Kralj Stjepan Tvrtko I. In: Hrvatsko kulturno društvo Napredak (ed.): Povijest Bosne i Hercegovine . tape I . Sarajevo 1998, p. 313-349, here p. 314 .

[4] Pavao Anđelić: Bobovac i Kraljeva Sutjeska: stolna mjesta bosanskih vladara u XIV i XV stoljeću (= Biblioteka Kulturno nasljeđe ). Veselin Masleša, 1973, p. 230 .