Balša Petar Hercegović ( sr-cyr, Балша Петар Херцеговић, 1458 - 1514) was the titular " Duke of St. Sava" (), as son of duke

Vladislav Hercegović Vladislav Hercegović ( sr-Cyrl, Владислав Херцеговић; 1426 or 1427 – 1489) was oldest son of Stjepan Vukčić. The Kosača noble family held lands in the region known as Humska zemlja, later named Herzegovina. Unlike hi ...

and Byzantine princess Anna Kantakouzene. He was born before the Ottoman conquest of the Bosnian Kingdom (1463). Sometime 1460, Vladislav sent Anna and their children to live in the

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. His father was given the estate of Kalnik near Križevci, Croatia in 1469 by king

Matthias Corvinus Matthias Corvinus (; ; ; ; ; ) was King of Hungary and King of Croatia, Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. He is often given the epithet "the Just". After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemia in 1469 and ...

. Balša joined his father and remained in

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, where he was later active at the court of king Vladislaus II. Historian D. Lovrenović noted that it was possible that he was Jelena Nelipić's son.Dubravko Lovrenović, ''Da li je Jelena Nelipčić bila majka Balše Hercegovica'', Istorijski zbornik 7, Banja Luka, 1986

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