Mladen I Šubić of Bribir ( hr, Mladen I Šubić Bribirski; died 1304) was a

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ian nobleman who was a member of Šubić family, at the end of 13th and beginning of the 14th century. He was a brother of a ban of

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Paul I Šubić of Bribir Paul I Šubić of Bribir ( hr, Pavao I. Šubić Bribirski, hu, bribiri I. Subics Pál; c. 1245 – 1 May 1312) was Ban of Croatia between 1275 and 1312, and Lord of Bosnia from 1299 to 1312. As the oldest son of Stephen II of the Šubić noble ...

, who appointed Mladen as a commissar of the Dalmatian city of

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, along with

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. After Paul I Šubić declared himself as "

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" in 1299, he gave to Mladen I the title of Bosnian Ban. Stephen Kotroman had resisted the growth of Šubić's power in Bosnia, but had lost by 1300 most control over Bosnia to Mladen I Šubić. After 1302 all of Bosnia was under House of Šubić. Mladen I controlled most of it, and small part of Bosnia land (the Lower Edges) was ruled by Prince Hrvatin Stjepanić, who was a

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of the House of Šubić, which was confirmed by

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. Bosnian Ban Mladen I Šubić had started a campaign in Bosnia to exterminate the adherents of the

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– the Bogumils. In religious conflict Mladen was killed in a battle during 1304. He was inherited by his nephew

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, who needed help, so Pavao I Šubić himself had to lead an Army to crush the resistance in Bosnia. In 1305 Pavao I took the title of ''

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'' (''totius Bosniae dominus'').

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