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155: 190:) – strongly suggests that it contained the remains of an Islamized princess. Catherine was determined to be the likeliest. It is thus possible that Catherine remained unmarried, since a married Muslim woman at the time would have been buried under her husband's name. Elezović, however, noted that a Muslim aristocrat family from 170:
In Rome, Queen Catherine worked to have Sigismund and Catherine "released from Turkish captivity". In 1470, she mentioned her daughter as being 10 years old, but this probably meant that the princess was 10 at the time of her capture. Four years later, Queen Catherine travelled to the Ottoman border
131:, becoming known as Ishak Bey the King's Son, and built a career as a high-ranking Ottoman statesman. Very little is known about Catherine, however, besides the fact that she too became Muslim. The siblings' conversion, as well as Ottoman education, may have been instigated by their uncle, 171:
to negotiate a ransom, likely with her Muslim half-brother as proxy, but failed. Shortly before her death in 1478, the Queen devised a will in which she named Catherine the heir to the Bosnian throne, in case she returned to Christianity and her brother did not.
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Elezović surmised that Catherine changed her name upon conversion from Catholicism, married and spent the rest of her life in Skopje. His identification of Catherine as the person buried under the
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and the coast in different directions to confuse and mislead the invaders. Sigismund and Catherine, separated from their mother, were nevertheless captured in the town of
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claimed descent from a certain "Kuturman" from Skopje, which he associated with the name of the Kotromanić dynasty.
104: 42: 116: 175: 50: 119:, and was executed shortly afterwards. Queen Catherine succeeded in escaping and eventually settled in Rome. 78: 30: 81:. Catherine and Sigismund are popularly said to have moved at that time with their mother to the castle of 163: 132: 38: 136: 74: 388: 101: 127:
The fate of Sigismund following the fall of Bosnia is relatively well-known – he converted to
140: 70: 178:, a 15th-century mausoleum in a Muslim cemetery in Skopje, is widely accepted. The name of the 365: 352: 183: 112: 82: 77:. When Thomas died, in July 1461, the Bosnian crown devolved upon her older half-brother, 108: 97: 46: 382: 154: 340:
Povijesnoteološki simpozij u povodu 500 obljetnice smrti bosanske kraljice Katarine
115:, close to Jajce. Their half-brother the King was deceived into surrendering in 66: 333:(in Serbo-Croatian), Društvo za proučavanje srednjovjekovne bosanske historije 151:
who may have been her maternal granduncle, in whose household she converted.
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Bosanska kraljica Katarina : pola stoljeća Bosne, 1425-1478
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Pandžić, Bazilije (1979), "Katarina Vukčić Kosača (1424-1478)",
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and the last Bosnian princess. She was captured during the
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Katarina Tomašević Kotromanić/Катарина Томашевић Котроманић
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Index

Catherine of Bosnia (disambiguation)
Serbo-Croatian
House of Kotromanić
Ottoman conquest of Bosnia
Ottoman Empire
Kral Kızı Türbe
Skopje
King Thomas
Queen Catherine
Sigismund
Stephen Tomašević
Kozograd
Fojnica
Jajce
Ottomans
Mehmed the Conqueror
invaded Bosnia
Croatia proper
Zvečaj
Ključ
Islam
Hersekzade Ahmed Pasha
Gligorije Elezović
Isa-Beg Isaković
sanjakbey
Skopje

1963 Skopje earthquake
Kral Kızı Türbe
Turkish

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