Vlatko Tumurlić ( sr-Cyrl, Влатко Тумурлић) was a ''krstjanin'', a member of the
Bosnian Church
The Bosnian Church ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Crkva bosanska, Црква Босанска) was a Christian church in medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina that was independent of and considered heretical by both the Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox ...
, a diplomat in the service of the
Pavlović family.
Life and career
Vlatko Tumurlić, a ''krstjanin'', is better known as a diplomat, deputy in the service of the Pavlović family, than for his place and role in the hierarchy of the Bosnian Church.
Together with other deputies, he represented Knyaz
Pavle Radinović
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in negotiations with the people of
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(today
Dubrovnik
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) during the
Bosnian–Ragusan war of 1403–1404, and he also represented Duke
Radoslav Pavlović
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in resolving the fate of the town of Sokol in
Konavle
Konavle () is a municipality and a small region located southeast of Dubrovnik, Croatia.
It is administratively part of the Dubrovnik-Neretva County and the center of the municipality is Cavtat.
Demographics
The total municipality population wa ...
in 1423. These affairs show that members of the Bosnian Church were appropriate and sufficient guarantors for the people of Dubrovnik in the most important issues they had with the Bosnian nobles Pavlovićs. Hence, it is assumed that during the 15th century the Bosnian Church was respected as a stable framework for solving important state issues for
medieval Bosnian state
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The western Balkans had ...
, that nobles respected its strength, and that the people of Dubrovnik knew this and regularly requested that representatives of the Bosnian Church be included in important question negotiations and its resolutions.
See also
*
Gost Radin
Radin ( sr-cyr, Радин), known under his full name, Radin Butković, was a Bosnian nobleman and magnate, who also served as ''gost'', a high ranking prelate of the Bosnian Church during the 15th century in medieval Bosnia.
As his vernacula ...
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Batalo }; before 1391–1404), who is simply known as Batalo, in some research also Batal, was a medieval Bosnian nobleman from Lašva. He was the holder of the medieval Bosnian title of "tepčija". In Medieval Bosnia the title of tepčija appeared some ti ...
References
Bibliography
*{{cite journal , author1=Pejo Ćošković , author1-link=Pejo Ćošković , title=KRSTJANIN VLATKO TUMURLIĆ I NJEGOVO DOBA (1403.-1423.) , journal=Croatica Christiana Periodica , date=14 June 1995 , volume=19 , issue=35 , pages=1–54 , url=https://hrcak.srce.hr/77621 , access-date=6 July 2023 , language=hr , issn=0350-7823
Medieval Bosnian nobility
Medieval Bosnian society
Medieval Bosnian state
Bosnian Church clergy
Bosnia and Herzegovina diplomats