Matija Sabančić or Matija Šabančić ( 1463–71) was the titular

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in the period of 1465–1471, as the first of two Ottoman-installed puppets in Bosnia. He was one of the last known members of the

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Life

Sabančić was one of three sons of anti-king Radivoj of Bosnia (1432–1435), an illegitimate son of King Ostoja (r. 1398–1404, 1409–1418), and Catherine, daughter of Nicholas of Velika, who married in 1449. His father unsuccessfully claimed the crown of Bosnia between 1432 and 1435. Matthias' brothers were Tvrtko (d. 1463) and George ( 1455). In 1463, Sabančić's father, brother Tvrtko and first cousin, King Stephen Tomašević, were executed on the order of the Ottoman Sultan

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, while the

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was annexed to the

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. In the last months of 1465, Mehmed the Conqueror named Sabančić

. However, Sabančić gained little more than the title, as the actual kingdom was defunct. His "realm" was probably

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. The only sources that mention him are those of the

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and are related to his granting favours. Sabančić was last mentioned in 1471. The second Ottoman puppet in Bosnia was Matija Vojsalić, installed in March or April 1476, while at the same time King

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of Hungary named Nicholas of Ilok as the Hungarian puppet King of Bosnia.

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