Elizabeth of Serbia ( sr, Јелисаветa/Jelisaveta; 1270 — died 1331) was Baness of
Bosnia
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by her marriage to
Stephen I, Ban of Bosnia. Elizabeth briefly ruled as regent for her eldest son, Stephen II, in 1314.
Family
Elizabeth was the daughter of King
Stephen Dragutin of Serbia
Stefan Dragutin ( sr-cyr, Стефан Драгутин, hu, Dragutin István; 1244 – 12 March 1316) was King of Serbia from 1276 to 1282. From 1282, he ruled a separate kingdom which included northern Serbia, and (from 1284) the neig ...
of the
Nemanjić dynasty
The House of Nemanjić ( sr-Cyrl, Немањић, Немањићи; Nemanjić, Nemanjići, ) was the most prominent dynasty of Serbia in the Middle Ages. This princely, royal, and later imperial house produced twelve Serbian monarchs, who rul ...
. Her mother was
Catherine of Hungary. Elizabeth was the second of four children; her brother was
Stephen Vladislav II of Syrmia
Vladislav ( sr-cyr, Владислав; 1280–1326) was the King of Syrmia from 1316 to 1325, and claimant to the Serbian Kingdom.
He was the son of Stefan Dragutin, who had ruled Serbia until 1282, when he became ill and abdicated, giving the ...
.
Life
After 1283, she married Stephen I Kotroman, Ban of Bosnia. Dragutin had already controlled two banates in Bosnia:
Usora and
Soli and Kotroman immediately fell under his influence – many of his acts were of Dragutin's command. The marriage was political and arranged by Ban
Prijezda II who had attempted to forge an alliance with Stephen Dragutin (Elizabeth's father).
Elizabeth and Stephen had at least six children, all of whom are believed to have lived to adulthood:
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Stephen II (born 1292), Ban of Bosnia, whose daughter was
Elizabeth, Queen of Hungary and Poland
*
Vladislav (1295–1354), co-regent, whose son was
Tvrtko I, the first King of Bosnia
*
Ninoslav (born c. 1288 in
Jajce
Jajce (Јајце) is a town and municipality located in the Central Bosnia Canton of the Federation of Bosnia and Herzegovina, an entity of Bosnia and Herzegovina. According to the 2013 census, the town has a population of 7,172 inhabitants, with ...
), whose daughter was
Mary, Countess of Helfenstein
*
Miroslav
*
Katarina (Catherine, born c. 1294 in
Bribir–1355), who married Nikola of Hum before 1338, with issues Vladislav and Bogiša
* Marija (Mary, born c. 1308), who married
Ludovik
*possibly, a son (born c. 1300–died c. 1331)
Regency
After her husband's death in 1314, Elizabeth briefly ruled as regent for her eldest son, Stephen II. According to a 1601 source whose reliability is unknown, Elizabeth fled to the
Republic of Ragusa
hr, Sloboda se ne prodaje za sve zlato svijeta it, La libertà non si vende nemmeno per tutto l'oro del mondo"Liberty is not sold for all the gold in the world"
, population_estimate = 90 000 in the XVI Century
, currency = ...
(
Dubrovnik
Dubrovnik (), historically known as Ragusa (; see notes on naming), is a city on the Adriatic Sea in the region of Dalmatia, in the southeastern semi-exclave of Croatia. It is one of the most prominent tourist destinations in the Mediterran ...
).
and died around 1331. Upon extinction of the Nemanjić dynasty, Elizabeth's grandson
Tvrtko, Ban of Bosnia, had himself crowned King of Bosnia and King of Serbia based on his descent from Elizabeth.
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Medieval Serbian princesses
1270 births
1331 deaths
14th-century Serbian royalty
Nemanjić dynasty
Kotromanić dynasty
Women of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina
13th-century Serbian women
14th-century women rulers
Daughters of kings