Vladislava Kurjaković (c. 1303 – after 1346) was a Croatian noblewoman who was the duchess of

Knin Knin (, sr, link=no, Книн, it, link=no, Tenin) is a city in the Šibenik-Knin County of Croatia, located in the Dalmatian hinterland near the source of the river Krka, an important traffic junction on the rail and road routes between Zagr ...

as the wife of duke Ivan Nelipić. She was a daughter of Kurjak Gusić, count of

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and a maternal niece of

Ban of Croatia Ban of Croatia ( hr, Hrvatski ban) was the title of local rulers or office holders and after 1102, viceroys of Croatia. From the earliest periods of the Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by bans as a ruler's representative (viceroy) an ...

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 ...

. She was married to the Duke of Knin and

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Ivan Nelipić, with whom she had a son,

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. Following her husband's death in 1344, she took control of her husband's possessions as her son's guardian and continued to resist the rule of the king in the north. A royal army numbering about 4,000 soldiers under the Slavonian ban Nikola Banffy eventually invaded her territories and besieged Knin during September and October 1344. Protected by significant fortifications, the ban was unable to storm the city, and instead pillaged the surrounding villages before mounting the hill Spas in a final attempt. Vladislava initially promised him she will submit to king

Louis I of Hungary Louis I, also Louis the Great ( hu, Nagy Lajos; hr, Ludovik Veliki; sk, Ľudovít Veľký) or Louis the Hungarian ( pl, Ludwik Węgierski; 5 March 132610 September 1382), was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1342 and King of Poland from 1370 ...

, but subsequently changed her stance as the army withdrew. She was also aided by the

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, and signed an agreement with their delegates in the main hall of the palace in the Knin Castle, which enacted military support and trade agreements. As a result of this, another siege was laid to Knin by Nikola in 1345 together with the

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Stjepan I Kotromanić as the main royal army under Louis I slowly approached consisting of tens of thousands of soldiers in total. Both of these acts finally pressured Vladislava to sign a contract with the two bans in July 1345, during which she ceded the castles of

, , Počitelj, Srb, and Unac to the king. The contract also confirmed her possession of Cetina and promised her the

fortress of Klis ) from Vrana, in the name of Bosnian King Tvrtko I * 1394–1401 Ban Nikola II Gorjanski in the name of Sigismund * 1401–1434 Croatian noble Prince Ivaniš Nelipić * 1434–1436 Croatian noble and Ban of Croatia Ivan Frankopan, at that ti ...

(then under the control of

Mladen III Šubić Mladen III Šubić ( hr, Mladen III. Šubić) ( 1315 – Trogir, 1 May 1348) was a member of the Croatian Šubić noble family, who ruled from Klis Fortress. He was in possession of Klis, Omiš and Skradin. He is also known as Shield of the Cr ...

). Her son was granted absolution along with court titles and some land in

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. In spite of this resolution, Vladislava was not happy, and spent the rest of her years in a voluntary exile in

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(since 1346), which was then under the control of the

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