Vladislav Hercegović
Grand Duke of Bosnia
Full name
Vladislav Hercegović Kosača
Born1426
Died1489
Rab
Noble familyKosača noble family
FatherStjepan Vukčić

Vladislav Hercegović (Serbian Cyrillic: Владислав Херцеговић; 1426 or 1427 – 1489) was oldest son of Stjepan Vukčić. The Kosača noble family held lands in the region later named Herzegovina. During his father's reign he is known to have interfered with his affairs. After 1453 he was frequently in the service of the Ottoman Empire, the Republic of Venice and the Hungarian-Croatian king Matthias Corvinus. Corvinus granted him the forts of Veliki Kalnik and Mali Kalnik near Križevci.

As an Ottoman vassal (after 1469) he took part in the capture of the town of Počitelj on the river Neretva in 1472 and in battles against the Vlatković's of that region. He succeeded in escaping Ottoman rule until 1480 when he was defeated and retreated to Herceg Novi. When Herceg Novi was captured by the Ottomans in the year 1482, Vladislav retreated to the island of Rab under Venetian rule where he would die.

He married Anna Kantakouzene, one of the five known daughters of George Palaiologos Kantakouzenos, in 1453 or 1454. A surviving letter from King Alfonso of Naples and Aragon to Vladislav's father Stjepan dated 5 April 1455 congratulates the latter that two of his sons are married: one to the niece of the Despot of Serbia (who would be Anna Kantakouzene), and the other to the sister of the Count of Cilly. At some time after this Vladislav sent Anna with his son Balša and niece Mara to live in the Republic of Ragusa (modern Dubrovnik).[1]

Family

His father Stjepan married three times and had four children with his first wife Jelena, who was mother of Vladislav and his siblings.

Vladislav's siblings were older sister Katarina, who was the oldest, and younger brothers Vlatko and Stjepan, who was the youngest and who converted to Islam in 1470, took the name Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha and was five-time grand vizier of the Ottoman Empire.

His father's second wife, a Catholic princess Barbara, gave birth to at least two children, a son (1456), a short-lived child whose name is not known, and daughter Mara, but no other information exists about these children.

His son, Balša, was the titular "Duke of St. Sava".[2]

Descendants

  • Balša
  • Petar
    • Matija
      • Miklos
        • Ivan
        • Andrija
        • Tomaš
        • Unknown Daughter
      • Unknown Daughter
    • Vladislav Hercegović

References

  1. ↑ Donald M. Nicol, The Byzantine Family of Kantakouzenos (Cantacuzenus) ca. 1100-1460: a Genealogical and Prosopographical Study (Washington, DC: Dumbarton Oaks, 1968), p. 208
  2. ↑ Radovan Samardžić (1892). Istorija srpskog naroda: Doba borbi za očuvanje i obnovu države 1371-1537. Srpska knjiiževna zadruga. У главној повељи наведен је и деспот Ђорђе (Georgius regni Rascie despotus), а у повељи хрватског и славонског племства Балша Херцеговић (dux sancti Save).
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