Jelena Šubić (
Serbian Cyrillic
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: Јелена Шубић; Jelena Nemanjić Šubić (Јелена Немањић Шубић)) was the daughter of
Stefan Uroš III Dečanski of Serbia and the half-sister of
Stefan Dušan.
She was married to the
Croatian magnate
Mladen III Šubić, Prince of
Bribir from the noble
Šubić family. They ruled from
Klis Fortress in
Dalmatia
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. After Mladen III Šubić's death, she ruled as his widow over
Skradin and
Klis.
After the death of Prince Mladen III (1348), the Dalmatian cities of Klis and Skradin were ruled by Jelena, in the name of their son Mladen IV. She had many opponents, beginning from 1351. Firstly, from the wife of Paul III, Catherine Dandolo from Venice, then
Jelena Šubić
Jelena Šubić (died 1378) was a member of the Bribir branch of the Croatian Šubić noble family who ruled the Banate of Bosnia as regent from 1354 until 1357 during the minority of her son Tvrtko I of Bosnia.
Life
Jelena was the daughter of ...
, the mother of Ban
Tvrtko I of Bosnia. The mother of Tvrtko was openly supported by King
Louis I of Hungary
Louis I, also Louis the Great (; ; ) or Louis the Hungarian (; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370. He was the first child of Charles I of Hungary and his wife, Elizabeth of ...
, although Louis I in reality wanted these cities for himself.
In 1355, the Republic of Venice sent an offer to buy the cities from her, but as she refused, and was unable to defend the cities from the many pretenders, she asked her brother Emperor Stefan Dušan for aid. Dušan sent
Palman to Klis and
Đuraš Ilijić to Skradin. The cities were subsequently given up, after the inhabitants showed unreadiness and some non-decisive fighting, with Đuraš ceding Skradin to Venice after the death of Dušan (December 20, 1355). Dušan had sought a flotilla from Venice for his planned campaign on Constantinople, and had ordered Đuraš to cede Skradin if it could not be defended from the Hungarians. Klis was subsequently ceded to the Hungarians by Palman without conflict. Palman took Jelena with him, but her son Mladen IV stayed behind as a political hostage.
See also
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Šubić
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Nemanjić family tree
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