Dorothea of Bulgaria
| Dorothea of Bulgaria | |
|---|---|
| Queen consort of Bosnia | |
| Tenure | 1377 – c. 1390 |
| Died | c. 1390 |
| Spouse | Tvrtko I of Bosnia |
| House | House of Kotromanić Shishman |
| Father | Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria |
| Mother | Anna of Wallachia |
Dorothea of Bulgaria (died c. 1390) was the first Queen of Bosnia.
Early life
She was the daughter of Emperor Ivan Sratsimir of Bulgaria and his wife Anna of Wallachia.
Louis I, King of Hungary, retained her and her sister at the Hungarian court after her father was restored in 1370. Dorothea was placed in care of the queen, Elisabeth of Bosnia, and queen mother, Elisabeth of Poland.[1] Dorothea's sister died soon, while Dorothea herself fell in favour of the King.[2] King Louis I gave her in marriage to his cousin-in-law, ban Tvrtko I of Bosnia.[1]
Marriage
Dorothea married ban Tvrtko I in Saint Ilija [2] (today's Ilinci, near Šid) on 8 December 1374 [3] and became banness of Bosnia. On 26 October 1377 her husband was crowned King and she took the title of Queen of Bosnia.
Queen Dorothea died before 1390,[4] having left neither sons [5] nor known daughters. Her husband planned to remarry, this time to a member of the House of Habsburg, but he died in 1391.
References
- ^ a b Mladen Ančić, Putanja klatna: Ugarsko-hrvatsko kraljevstvo i Bosna u XIV. stoljeću, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, 1997
- ^ a b Vjekoslav Klaić i Trpimir Macan, Povijest Hrvata od najstarijih vremena do svršetka XIX stoljeća, Nakladni zavod MH, 1981
- ^ Vinko Foretić, Povijest Dubrovnika do 1808: dio. Od osnutka do 1526, Nakladni zavod MH, 1980
- ^ Krunoslav Draganović, Poviest hrvatskih zemalja Bosne i Hercegovine, Hrvatsko kulturno društvo "Napredak", 1942
- ^ Joseph Reese Strayer, Dictionary of the Middle Ages, Scribner, 1989
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