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{{Infobox royalty
|name        = Stephen Ostoja
|image       =
|caption     =
|succession  = [[King of Bosnia]]
|reign       = 1398–1404
|reign-type  = First reign
|predecessor = [[Jelena Gruba]]
|successor   = [[Tvrtko II of Bosnia|Stephen Tvrtko II]]
|succession1 = King of Bosnia
|reign1      = 1409–1418
|reign-type1 = Second reign
|predecessor1= [[Tvrtko II of Bosnia|Stephen Tvrtko II]]
|successor1  = [[Stephen Ostojić of Bosnia|Stephen Ostojić]]
|spouse      = [[Vitača]]<br>[[Kujava Radinović]]<br>[[Jelena Nelipčić]]
|issue       = [[Stephen Ostojić of Bosnia]]<br>[[Radivoj of Bosnia]]<br>[[Thomas of Bosnia]]
|house       = [[House of Kotromanić]]
|father      =
|death_date  = September 1418
|religion    = [[Church of Bosnia]]<ref name="Fine 281">{{cite book | last=Fine | first=John Van Antwerp | title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest | page=[https://archive.org/details/latemedievalbalk00fine/page/281 281] | publisher= The University of Michigan Press | location=Michigan | year=1994 | isbn=0472100793 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/latemedievalbalk00fine/page/281 }}</ref>
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[[Stefan (title)|Stephen]] '''Ostoja'''<ref>His name in [[Bosnian language|Bosnian]] is rendered Stjepan Ostoja ({{Cyrl|Стјепан Остоја}}), while in [[Croatian language|Croatian]] it is Stjepan Ostoja. In [[Serbian language|Serbian]], he is called Stefan Ostoja ({{Cyrl|Стефан Остоја}}).</ref> ({{lang-sh-Latn-Cyrl|separator=" / "|Stjepan Ostoja|Стјепан Остоја}}; died September 1418) was [[List of rulers of Bosnia|King of Bosnia]] from 1398 to 1404 and from 1409 to 1418.
==Family connections==
He was a member of the [[House of Kotromanić]], most likely son of [[Vladislaus of Bosnia|Vladislaus]] and brother of [[Tvrtko I of Bosnia|King Tvrtko I]]. When duke [[Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić|Hrvoje Vukčić]] in 1416 died, King Ostoja divorced his old wife [[Kujava Radinović|Kujava]] from the house of [[Radinović noble family|Radinović]] and married Hrvoje's widow [[Jelena Nelipčić]] the next year.<ref name=Fine1>John Van Antwerp Fine, Bosnian Institute; ''The Bosnian Church: Its Place in State and Society from the Thirteenth to the Fifteenth Century'', Saqi in association with The Bosnian Institute, 2007</ref> Jelena Nelipčić was the sister of Prince [[Ivan III Nelipić]] from the Croatian noble [[Nelipić family]]. That way Ostoja inherited most of Hrvoje's lands.
==Rise to power==
Ostoja was brought to power by the forces of [[Hrvoje Vukčić]], Grand Duke of [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]] and a Herzog of [[Split (city)|Split]], which deposed [[Monarch|Queen]] [[Jelena Gruba]] in 1398. In 1403 he sided with King Ladislaus of Naples in his plights against the Hungarian King Sigismund, Bosnia's liege. King Ostoja led a war against the [[Republic of Dubrovnik]], a Hungarian vassalage that year. In 1404, the Bosnians under Hrvoje Vukčić replaced him by his brother [[Tvrtko II]] because of his pro-Hungarian views. He had to flee to [[Hungary]], after a [[stanak]] in [[Mile (Visoko)|Mile]], [[Visoko during the Middle Ages|Visoko]].
In 1408, Hungarian King Sigismund managed to defeat the Bosnian nobility and King Stephen Tvrtko II and restore Ostoja to the throne in 1409. King Stephen Ostoja ended the decade-long dispute with the Hungarians but recognizing the suzerainty of the Hungarian crown and in 1412 visited the Hungarian throne in [[Buda]] together with the rest of the [[Bosnians|Bosnian]] and [[Serbia]]n nobility including [[List of Serbian rulers|Serbian Despot]] [[Stefan Lazarević]].
King Stephen Ostoja died in September 1418 and his oldest son from his marriage with [[Kujava]], Stephen Ostojić, was elected [[Monarch|King]] of [[Bosnia (region)|Bosnia]].
==See also==
* [[House of Kotromanić]]
* [[History of Bosnia and Herzegovina]]
* [[Hrvoje Vukčić]]
==References==
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