Vitača (Serbian Cyrillic: Витача) was Queen consort of Bosnia as the first wife of King Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia.[1][2]
Vitača married Ostoja, the illegitimate son of King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, before his accession to the throne of Bosnia. Ostoja was a member of the Bosnian Church and 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 succeed Jelena Gruba in 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 the Ragusans referred 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 married Kujava Radinović, who, sixteen years later, he divorced in turn.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d Dautović, Dženan (2019-10-31), "THE PAPACY AND MARRIAGE PRACTICES IN MEDIEVAL BOSNIA", Medieval Bosnia and South-East European Relations, Arc Humanities Press, pp. 113–136, doi:10.2307/j.ctvpb3vg4.9, S2CID 211655677, retrieved 2024-02-02
- ^ Veselinović, Andrija; Ljušić, Radoš (2002). Rodoslovi srpskih dinastija (in Serbian). Platoneum. ISBN 978-86-83639-02-1.
- ^ 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. ISBN 978-0-472-08260-5.
- ^ a b Fine, 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. ISBN 978-0-914710-03-5.
- ^ 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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