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Blessed Catherine of Bosnia ((ボスニア語:Katarina Kosača)/Катарина Косача; 1425 – 25 October 1478) was Queen of Bosnia as the wife of King Stephen Thomas. She was a daughter of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, Grand Duke of Bosnia. After her husband's death in 1461 she became the queen dowager of Bosnia, but had to flee the Ottoman invasion in 1463. Although she is often called "the last queen of Bosnia", the last to hold the title was actually Catherine's stepdaughter-in-law, Mary of Serbia.〔Franz Babinger, ''Mehmed the Conqueror and His Time'', Princeton University Press, 1992〕 == Biography == Catherine is presumed to have been born in Blagaj, the seat of her father Stjepan Vukčić, one of the most powerful figures amongst Bosnian nobility. Her mother was Jelena, daughter of Balša III of Zeta. The earliest source that mentions Catherine is the will of her maternal great-grandmother Jelena Lazarević, who left her some jewelry, dated 25 November 1442. On 26 May 1446, Catherine was given in marriage to the illegitimate son of King Stephen Ostoja of Bosnia, Stephen Thomas, to strengthen the ties between the Bosnian royal house and Bosnia's nobility at the time when Count Herman II of Celje, his distant relative, was poised to claim the Bosnian throne, and the Ottoman threat to Bosnia was looming. Stephen Thomas was in a difficult position. His own brother, Radivoj Ostojić, supported by the Ottomans, was also claiming rights to the throne, referring to himself as king of Bosnia, while Bosnian nobility considered his origins and marriage to a commoner, Vojača, unfit for a king. Stephen Thomas sought support from Pope Eugene IV, and in exchange for recognition of himself as a legitimate ruler of Bosnia and denunciation of the Bosnian Church, he was crowned in 1445. In another political masterstroke, he married Catherine in a Catholic ceremony in May 1446 ensuring, at least for a short while, the support of the most powerful nobleman in the kingdom and a staunch supporter of the Bosnian Church, Stjepan Kosača. Having moved to Kraljeva Sutjeska, the seat of Bosnian kings, Catherine gave birth to two children:〔 son Sigismund, in 1449, and daughter Catherine in 1459. During this time, her husband, under pressure from the Catholic Church, embarked on widespread persecution of the followers of the Bosnian Church once again colliding with the Bosnian nobility and people. Some 40,000 followers of the Bosnian Church found refuge in the lands controlled by Catherine's father, who, having received the title of Herzeg from the Holy Roman Emperor Frederick III in 1448 and with the blessing of Sultan Mehmed II the Conqueror, once again found himself on the collision course with his son-in-law. Tomaš died on 10 July 1461 and was succeeded by his son, Stephen Tomašević, who recognised Catherine as queen mother. Tomašević's wife, Mary of Serbia, replaced Catherine as Queen of Bosnia. Tomašević's reign was short, as he was beheaded on 5 June 1463. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Catherine of Bosnia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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