Vitača
Vitača(Serbian Cyrillic:Витача) wasQueen consort of Bosniaas the first wife of KingStephen Ostoja of Bosnia.[1][2]
Vitača married Ostoja, the illegitimate son of KingTvrtko I of Bosnia,before his accession to the throne of Bosnia. Ostoja was a member of theBosnian Churchand Vitača was most likely a member of that church as well.[3]It is unknown whether they had any children.
Vitača became queen when her husband was elected to succeedJelena Grubain 1399.[4]Vitača, however, was not related to the powerful nobility of Bosnia - in fact, she may have been a commoner.[1]Ostoja divorced her, either by his own choice, or due to the pressure to make a useful political marriage.[4]He was able to do this because, unlike Roman Catholic churches, the Bosnian Church permitted divorce.[1]
Though, Ostoja referred to her as his wife in a letter he wrote to the people of Dubrovnik, dated February of 1399, by September of 1399 theRagusansreferred to Vitača as the repudiated wife of the King of Bosnia.[5]The Ragusans kept correspondence with the ex-queen Vitača for some time after her divorce.
Following his divorce from Vitača, Ostoja marriedKujava Radinović,who, sixteen years later, he divorced in turn.[1]
References
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- ^Veselinović, Andrija; Ljušić, Radoš (2002).Rodoslovi srpskih dinastija(in Serbian). Platoneum.ISBN978-86-83639-02-1.
- ^Fine (jr.), John V. A.; Fine, John Van Antwerp (1994).The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest.University of Michigan Press.ISBN978-0-472-08260-5.
- ^abFine, John Van Antwerp (1975).The Bosnian Church: A New Interpretation: a Study of the Bosnian Church and Its Place in State and Society from the 13th to the 15th Centuries.East European quarterly.ISBN978-0-914710-03-5.
- ^Историски гласник: орган Историского друштва НР Србије(in Serbian). Научна књига. 1953.
- 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
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