Vukac Hranić
15th century Bosnian nobleman
About Vukac Hranić
Lived 1370 – 1432 (aged 61–62).
Vukac Hranić Kosača (; died 1432) was powerful Bosnian magnate and nobleman from Kosača noble family with the title of knez, during the reigns of Tvrtko II (r. 1404–1409, first reign), Stephen Ostoja (r. 1409–1418), Stephen Ostojić (r. 1418–1421) and Tvrtko II again (r. 1421–1443).
Life and career Vukac was born in the second half of the 14th century as the second son of Hrana Vuković. He was younger brother of Grand Duke of Bosnia, Sandalj Hranić (l. 1370–1435), and older brother of knez Vuk Hranić (d. 1424). Both Vukac and Vuk were subordinate to their powerful older brother Sandalj, who governed Hum (Humska zemlja), southernmost part of the Kingdom of Bosnia. Sandalj had succeeded their uncle Vlatko Vuković as Grand Duke of Bosnia and Lord of Hum in 1392.
Vukac held part of his family's hereditary lands in Podrinje (mentioned in 1415), and the region of Govza by the Bistrica river, and the town of Jeleč, which he was given following the death of his younger brother Vuk in 1425.
Vukac was actively participated in the peace talks between the Kingdom of Bosnia and the Republic of Ragusa in 1405.
During the peace talks between dukes Radoslav Pavlović and Sandalj, besides the Ragusans, Vukac actively participated working for peace (he was Sandalj's brother and Radoslav's father-in-law). Peace was concluded on 1 February 1423.
In February 1425, Brailo Tezalović and Vukac arrived at Ragusa to once again start talks about the sale of Radoslav Pavlović's part of Konavle to the Republic of Ragusa. After the sale of eastern Konavle by Radoslav to the Republic of Ragusa in 1426, Vukac and Radoslav Obradović received 200 ducats each.
Vukac died in 1432.
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15th century Bosnian nobleman
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