Maria Of Bosnia
Maria of Bosnia (german: Maria von Bosnien; sh, Марија / Marija; 27 April 1403) was a member of the House of Kotromanić who married into the House of Helfenstein. Parentage Maria's parentage and connection to the House of Kotromanić is uncertain. King Louis I of Hungary, husband of Ban Stephen II of Bosnia's daughter Elizabeth, apparently mentions her in a charter as Stephen's II sister. Some historiographers have interpreted this literally, considering her a daughter of Ban Stephen I of Bosnia and Elizabeth of Serbia born in 1315. This, however, is very unlikely: it would mean that she married a (never-married and childless) nobleman in her forties, had her youngest children in her fifties, and lived to be over 90 years old. The 16th-century historian Oswald Gabelkover names her a younger ''daughter'' of Ban Stephen II. This view is supported by King Louis and Queen Elizabeth's choice of names for their elder daughters, Catherine and Maria, purportedly named after the ...
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Stephen II Of Bosnia
Stephen II ( sh-Cyrl-Latn, separator=" / ", Стефан II, Stjepan II) was the Bosnian Ban from 1314, but in reality from 1322 to 1353 together with his brother, Vladislav Kotromanić in 1326–1353. He was the son of Bosnian Ban Stephen I Kotromanić and Elizabeth, sister of King Stefan Vladislav II. Throughout his reign in the fourteenth century, Stephen ruled the lands from Sava to the Adriatic and from Cetina to Drina. He was a member of the Kotromanić dynasty. He was buried in his Franciscan church in Mile, near Visoko, Bosnia. Early life A member of the Kotromanićs, Stephen II was often labeled a " patarene", as Bosnian Church ''krstjani'' were mistakenly identified in contemporary sources (see Bosnian Church). When his father died in 1314 and Croatian Ban Mladen II Šubić emerged as ''Count of Zadar, Princeps of Dalmatia and Second Bosnian Ban'', Stephen's mother Elizabeth took him and his siblings and fled with them into exile to the Republic of Dubrovnik. Mlad ...
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