Stephen
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Ostoja
[His name in Bosnian is rendered Stjepan Ostoja (), while in Croatian it is Stjepan Ostoja. In Serbian, he is called Stefan Ostoja ().] ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Stjepan Ostoja, Стјепан Остоја; died September 1418) was
King of Bosnia
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from 1398 to 1404 and from 1409 to 1418.
Family connections
He was a member of the
House of Kotromanić, most likely son of
Vladislaus and brother of
King Tvrtko I. When duke
Hrvoje Vukčić in 1416 died, King Ostoja divorced his old wife
Kujava from the house of
Radinović and married Hrvoje's widow
Jelena Nelipčić the next year.
[John Van Antwerp Fine, Bosnian Institute; ''The Bosnian Church: Its Place in State and Society from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century'', Saqi in association with The Bosnian Institute, 2007] Jelena Nelipčić was the sister of Prince
Ivan III Nelipić from the Croatian noble
Nelipić family. That way Ostoja inherited most of Hrvoje's lands.
Rise to power
Ostoja was brought to power by the forces of
Hrvoje Vukčić, Grand Duke of
Bosnia
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and a Herzog of
Split
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, which deposed
Queen
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Jelena Gruba in 1398. In 1403 he sided with King Ladislaus of Naples in his plights against the Hungarian King Sigismund, Bosnia's liege. King Ostoja led a war against the
Republic of Dubrovnik, a Hungarian vassalage that year. In 1404, the Bosnians under Hrvoje Vukčić replaced him by his brother
Tvrtko II because of his pro-Hungarian views. He had to flee to
Hungary
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, after a
stanak
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in
Mile
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,
Visoko
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.
In 1408, Hungarian King Sigismund managed to defeat the Bosnian nobility and King Stephen Tvrtko II and restore Ostoja to the throne in 1409. King Stephen Ostoja ended the decade-long dispute with the Hungarians but recognizing the suzerainty of the Hungarian crown and in 1412 visited the Hungarian throne in
Buda
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together with the rest of the
Bosnian and
Serbia
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n nobility including
Serbian Despot Stefan Lazarević
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.
King Stephen Ostoja died in September 1418 and his oldest son from his marriage with
Kujava, Stephen Ostojić, was elected
King
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of
Bosnia
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.
See also
*
House of Kotromanić
*
History of Bosnia and Herzegovina
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*
Hrvoje Vukčić
References
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1418 deaths
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14th-century Bosnian people
15th-century Bosnian people
Dethroned monarchs
Burials in Royal Chapel on Bobovac
Kings of Bosnia