Stephen Kulinić
Stjepan,
He is often called
Reign
Lack of sources
It is not clear from the sources when exactly did Stjepan reign, between April 1203 and May 1233, when Matej Ninoslav became ban of Bosnia.[citation needed]
Stjepan is often considered the son of Ban Kulin and his wife, the banica Vojslava, and it is staid that he actively participated in the events related to the papal investigation of the religion of Kulin and Vojslava.[3][page needed] This cannot be proven with written sources, nor can it be completely rejected. There is no source that says that Kulin was succeeded by his son Stepan I, or by someone who usurped power from Kulin's son.[4]
It is not even clear whether there was only one ruler between ban Kulin, who was alive in April 1203, [5] and the "great ban" Ninoslav who ruled around 1232.[citation needed] From the papal correspondence, we learn a little that in 1236 Sebislav was the prince of Usora, and that he was the son of the deceased Stjepan ban of Bosnia ("Zibisclao, Kenesio de Woscura (Vsora) nato quondam Stephani Bani de Bosna").[6]
Despite the lively diplomatic activity of Pope Gregory IX after 1227 against those that he deemed as heretics in Bosnia, there is no mention of ban Stjepan in contemporary documents of the Roman Catholic Church.
Hungarian crusades
Despite the Bilino Polje abjuration of 1203, the Catholic Church remained suspicious of the orthodoxy of the Bosnian Christians. A mission was sent to convert Bosnia in 1216 but failed.[citation needed] The
At the height of the
In 1221,
On 15 May 1225, Pope Honorius III spurred the Hungarians to undertake the Bosnian Crusade. That expedition, like the previous ones, turned into a defeat, and the Hungarians had to retreat when the Mongols invaded their territories.
During the reign of Stjepan, the grasp of the Bosnian Church had grown further. Pope Gregory IX, elected in 1227, decided to launch a Crusade against the Bosnian Church in order to finally eradicate it. As part of that plan, he launched a very lively diplomatic activity. During all that time, there is no mention of ban Stjepan in local documents, and the Vatican does not mention him either.
Deposition
Because of his ardent Roman Catholicism and his allegiance to the Hungarian Kingdom, Stjepan was not popular among his Bosnian subjects. Towards the end of his reign, the Inquisition came to Bosnia and burned several dozen heretics in Vitez for ten years.[citation needed]. In 1232, when a disorder caught Hungary, the Bosnians revolted and deposed ban Stjepan.[9] His throne was seized by Matija Ninoslav.
Ban Stjepan and his wife, banica Ancila, had a son, Sibislav.[10][page needed][3][page needed]
See also
References
- ^ Логос 2017, p. 174, 175. His name appears in the papal correspondence from 1236, in which it is written about Sibislav, Prince of Usora that he is the son of Stephani bani de Bosna.
- ^ @EmirOFilipovic (March 10, 2023). "We cannot be absolutely sure that Kulin was succeeded by his son or that Ban Stjepan was indeed his son. He was certainly not called "Kulinić", not in contemporary sources nor by historiography. The name can be encountered in Wikipedia though:" (Tweet) – via Twitter.
- ^ a b Imamović, Enver (1995). Korijeni Bosne i bosanstva: izbor novinskih članaka, predavanja sa javnih tribina, referata sa znanstvenih skupova i posebnih priloga [The roots of Bosnia and Bosnia: a selection of newspaper articles, lectures from public forums, reports from scientific meetings and special contributions] (in Croatian). Međunarodni centar za mir.
- ^ Логос 2017, p. 174.
- ^ Fejér 1829b, p. 405-408.
- ^ Fejér 1829a, p. 36-37.
- ^ ISBN 978-1135131371.
- ISBN 978-0295800646.
- ^ Thierry Mudry, Histoire de la Bosnie-Herzégovine faits et controverses, Ellipses, 1999, p. 29
- ^ Mandić, Dominik (1978). Sabrana djela Dr. O. Dominika Mandića: Bosna i Hercegovina : Sv. 1. Državna i vjerska pripadnost sredovječne Bosne i Hercegovine [Collected works of Dr. Father Dominika Mandića: Bosnia and Herzegovina: St. 1. State and religious affiliation of medieval Bosnia and Herzegovina] (in Croatian). Ziral.
Bibliography
- Логос, Александар А. (2017). Историја Срба I. Београд. ISBN 978-86-85117-37-4.)
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- Накаш, Лејла (2011). Конкордацијски рјечник ћирилских повеља средњовјековне Босне. Сарајево.
{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)[dead link] - Fejér, Georgius (1829a). Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus ac civilis, Tomi IV, Vol. 1. Budae.
- Fejér, Georgius (1829b). Codex diplomaticus Hungariae ecclesiasticus ac civilis, Tomi II. Budae.
- Логос, Александар А. (2016). Историја Срба, 2. измењено издање. Београд. ISBN 978-86-85117-31-2.)
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