Stjepan I. Kotromanić

Stjepan I. Kotroman (* before 1270 , † after 1310 ) was the Ban of Bosnia under Hungarian sovereignty from around 1287 . The Kotromanić dynasty was named after him.

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Stjepan I. Kotroman was the son of Prijezda I († around 1287 ) and ruled at least temporarily together with his brother Prijezda II. In a letter that Pope Nicholas IV sent in 1290, Stjepan I is next to Prijezda II as Ban of Bosnia  (banus Bosnae) mentioned. Soon Prijezda II died, and Stjepan I then took power. Stjepan first becomes tangible in sources on the occasion of his wedding. His father Prijezda I married Stjepan I. Kotroman to Elisabeth, a daughter of the Serbian King Stefan Dragutin , in 1284. Three years later, Stjepan I Kotroman's sister, Katarina, was married to the Slavonian magnate Ladislav Babonić .

When Knez Pavao I. Bribirski declared himself ruler of Bosnia ( dominus Bosnae) in 1299 and Knez Hrvatin , ruler of the Donji krajevi ("lower countries") in the area of ​​Vrbas, submitted to him, Stjepan I administered only part of the middle Bosnia.

After a defeat of Stjepan I, which the Bosnian Ban Mladen I. Bribirski (1302-1304) inflicted on him on the Drina in 1302 , Stjepan is no longer mentioned in sources. He probably died between 1310 and 1314 when his family, who had fled Bosnia, arrived in Dubrovnik, according to Mavro Orbini .

Web links

• Frank fighter : Stefan I. Kotromanić . In: Mathias Bernath, Karl Nehring (Ed.), Gerda Bartl (Red.): Biographical Lexicon for the History of Southeast Europe . Volume 4. Oldenbourg, Munich 1981, ISBN 3-486-42421-1 , p. 175 f.
• Stjepan I. Kotromanić, Croatian Encyclopedia

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Kotromanići. In: Croatian Encyclopedia . Lexicographical Institute Miroslav Krleža , accessed on January 14, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Prijezda I. In: Croatian Encyclopedia . Lexicographical Institute Miroslav Krleža , accessed on January 20, 2018 .