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Vitača ( sr-cyr, Витача) was
Queen consort of Bosnia Duchesses of Bosnia :''The Duke of Bosnia, Ladislaus of Hungary, was engaged to Judith of Poland for a time but the engagement was broken off. Ladislaus did have a wife whose name is unknown.'' , Maria of Bosniac. 1353–1403, , , , daug ...
as the first wife of King Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia. Vitača married Ostoja, the illegitimate son of King
Tvrtko I of Bosnia Stephen Tvrtko I ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=" / ", Stjepan/Stefan Tvrtko, Стјепан/Стефан Твртко; 1338 – 10 March 1391) was the first king of Bosnia. A member of the House of Kotromanić, he succeeded his uncle Stephen I ...
, before his accession to the throne of Bosnia. Ostoja was 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 Orthodo ...
and Vitača was most likely a member of that church as well. It is unknown whether they had any children. Vitača became queen when her husband was elected to succeed
Jelena Gruba Helen ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Jelena, Јелена; 1345 – after 18 March 1399), also known by the name sh-Latn-Cyrl, label=none, separator=/, Gruba, Груба, ruled the Kingdom of Bosnia from September 1395 until late April or early M ...
in 1399. Vitača, however, was not related to the powerful nobility of Bosnia. Ostoja was forced to leave her, which was not hard to do because the Bosnian Church allowed divorce. The Ragusans referred to her as the repudiated wife of the King of Bosnia in September 1399; they kept correspondence with the ex-queen Vitača for some time after her divorce. Ostoja married
Kujava Radinović Kujava Radinović ( sr-cyr, Кујава Радиновић) was the second wife of King Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia and as such she was Queen of Bosnia from 1399 to 1404 and again from 1409 to 1415. She was the daughter of the nobleman Radin Jabla ...
and divorced her sixteen years later.


References

* John Van Antwerp Fine, Bosnian Institute; ''The Bosnian Church: Its Place in State and Society from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century'', Saqi in association with The Bosnian Institute, 2007 , - Bosnian queens 14th-century births 15th-century deaths Repudiated queens Kotromanić dynasty {{BosniaHerzegovina-bio-stub