Katarina Branković

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Katarina Branković
Countess of Celje
Vučitrn
Died1492(1492-00-00) (aged 73–74)[2]
Konče
Noble familyBranković
Spouse(s)
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(m. 1434; dead 1456)​
IssueHermann IV
Elizabeth of Cilli
Catherine
George
Albert
FatherĐurađ Branković
MotherIrene Kantakouzene

Katarina Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Катарина Бранковић, Greek: Καταρίνα Μπράνκοβιτς; 1418–1492), also known as Kantakuzina (Кантакузина, Kantakouzena) was the Countess of Celje, through the marriage with Count of Celje Ulrich II. A Serbian princess, she was the daughter of Despot Đurađ Branković and Byzantine princess Irene Kantakouzene.[2] She is remembered for writing the Varaždin Apostol (1454), and her endowment of the Rmanj Monastery.

Biography

Katarina married

Cyrillic from the territory of today's Croatia, to a group of three transcribers.[3]

Medvedgrad was one of Katarina's possessions[3]

After

Ottoman–Venetian War.[3] To that end, she was sending her delegates to Venice between 1470 and 1472, and along with her sister she led the Venetian envoys to Istanbul.[3] After the death of her sister Mara in 1487 Katarina took the care about Mount Athos monasteries.[3] Prior to her death Katarina relinquish her possession of Krško and right on yearly allowances. She died in 1492 in village Konče where she was buried in local church of Saint Stephen.[2]

Church of Saint Stephen in Konče

Endowments

Legacy

Kantakuzina Katarina Branković Serbian Orthodox Secondary School in Zagreb is a coeducational gymnasium of Serbian Orthodox Church that bears Katarina's name. Metropolitanate of Zagreb and Ljubljana was also awarding Order of Kantakuzina Katarina Branković.

The character of Katarina Branković is portrayed by Eva Dedova in the Netflix original historical docudrama Rise of Empires: Ottoman (2020).[5]

Ancestry

See also

References

  1. ^ "Катарина Бранковић Кантакузин- лепа и несрећна грофица Цељска". Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Biografija Katarine Kantakuzine, grofice Celjske". Retrieved 17 April 2016.
  3. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Povijest Škole - K. K. Branković". Retrieved 17 April 2016.
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  5. ^ "Rise of Empires: Ottoma". IMDb. Retrieved 6 September 2020.
  6. ^ Brook, Lindsay L. (1989). "The Problematic Ascent of Eirene Kantakouzene Brankovič". Studies in Genealogy and Family History in Tribute to Charles Evans on the Occasion of His Eightieth Birthday. Salt Lake City, Utah : Association for the Promotion of Scholarship in Genealogy. p. 5.
  7. ^ Williams, Kelsey Jackson (2006). "A Genealogy of the Grand Komnenoi of Trebizond" (PDF). Foundations. 2 (3): 171–189. Archived (PDF) from the original on 8 June 2019.
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