The Members of the Branković Family as Hungarian Nobility in Late Medieval Slavonia

Hekić, Benjamin and Isailović, Neven (2025) The Members of the Branković Family as Hungarian Nobility in Late Medieval Slavonia. In: The Eternal Cycle: neighbours, allies and/or rivals – Serbo/Hungarian relations in the Middle Ages (895–1541). Collection of Works (46). Institute of History, Belgrade, pp. 165-211. ISBN 978-86-7743-158-7

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Abstract

In contrast to their role as landlords and fiefholders in southern Hungary, even after the fall of medieval Serbia in 1459, a topic that has been well researched in Serbian historiography, the role of the Branković despotal family as Hungarian nobles and property owners in the 15thcentury Kingdom of Slavonia has never been the subject of a comprehensive study. This paper examines the activities of two members of the Branković family who acted as feudal lords in late 15thcentury Slavonia. The first was Kantakuzina-Katherina (Serbian: Katarina) Branković, daughter of Despot Đurađ (George) Vuković Branković, and the last Countess of Celje (Cilli), who, after the murder of her husband Ulrich II, inherited his Slavonian estates and governed them from 1456 until 1461, when she finally sold her remaining possessions in Slavonia. The second was Kantakuzina’s nephew, the titular Serbian despot Vuk Grgurević, who received numerous estates in Slavonia for his service to the Hungarian crown from 1464 until his death in 1485. He bequeathed most of his Slavonian estates to his wife, Barbara, née Frankapan

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