Stjepan Svetoslavić

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Stjepan Svetoslavić
Ban of Slavonia
In office
c. 1030 – 1060
MonarchStephen I
Succeeded byDemetrius Zvonimir
Personal details
Parent
  • Svetoslav
    (father)

Stjepan was a son of

Trpimirović dynasty
.

As his father was allied with Venetian Republic in Croatian civil wars and

Croatian-Bulgarian wars
, as well as in campaign of Pietro Orseolo II against Croatia in 1000, it was decided to strengthen those bonds even more.

After the coup d'état in Venice, Svetoslav Suronja and his family went to Hungary in exile and died.

Stjepan used the anarchy and made a conquest in Croatian Slavonia with Hungarians against the fratricide king. Stjepan later received the title Ban of Slavonia.

He was the father of

Demetrius Zvonimir of Croatia.[1]

References

  1. ^ Neven Budak: Prva stoljeća Hrvatske, Hrvatska sveučilišna naklada, Zagreb 1994, p. 31-33