Jelena Gruba
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Jelena Gruba (Cyrillic:Јелена Груба) (English: Helen the Tough) was the Queen regnant of Bosnia in 1395-1398. She was the first and only female ruler of Bosnia. She had only one daughter with her predecessor, King Stjepan Dabiša, Stana, who was married to Đurađ Radivojević.
Jelena Gruba was to brought to power by the large Bosnian nobility, the Bosnian Rusag and it is during her reign that the Bosnian nobility grows in power independently from the crown. Amongst them were the famous Dukes Sandalj Hranić and Hrvoje Vukčić and Prince Pavle Radenović that ruled their own demesnes independently from the Queen. The Queen's demesne was a small territory in central Bosnia, while she lost the suzeiranity over the territories of Usora in the valley of the river of Sava.
Jelena Gruba
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Preceded by Stjepan Dabiša |
Queen regnant of Bosnia 1395-1398 |
Succeeded by Stjepan Ostoja |
Queen regnant of Serbs 1395-1398 |
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Preceded by Dorothea of Bulgaria |
Queen consort of Bosnia 1391-1395 |
Succeeded by next known Katarina Kosača |
Queen consort of Serbs 1391-1395 |
Succeeded by ? |
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- Српске династије, Andrija Veselinović and Radoš Ljušić, 2001, Novi Sad