Vukosav Nikolić

Vukosav Nikolić (; 1395–d. 1403) was mid-ranking Bosnian nobleman and a vassal to Kosača-Vukčić family under Sandalj Hranić, who served the Kingdom of Bosnia during the reign of his relative Jelena Gruba (r. 1395–1398) and Stephen Ostoja (r. 1398–1404). He was the lord of Neum, the Popovo field, and the Lower Neretva region. He fell in battle during the Bosnian-Ragusan War.

Life The Nikolić noble family held possessions in the Popovo field. The family's eponymous founder, Nikola, descended from župan Bogdan, who in turn descended from Stefan Nemanja's brother, knez Miroslav of Hum (r. ca. 1166–1190). Nikola had two sons, Bogiša and Vladislav, He was the lord of Neum, the Popovo field and the Lower Neretva region.

King Dabiša of Bosnia (r. 1391–1395) died in September 1395. He had designated King Sigismund of Hungary, the husband of his cousin, Queen Mary, as his successor. Mary, however, had predeceased Dabiša, dying in May the same year. The Bosnian nobility refused to recognize Sigismund as king, as his right had rested in his status as Mary's husband. Instead, the nobility installed Jelena Gruba, his widow, and member of the Nikolić family, as the successor to her husband. On November 20, 1395, the Republic of Ragusa wrote a letter that secured Ragusan citizenship for Vukosav and his successors. He and his brothers were among many of the Bosnian nobility who had Ragusan citizenship.

In 1396, when John Kanizsai, the archbishop of Esztergom, fell ill during a trip to Ragusa (Dubrovnik) as King Sigismund's envoy, Vukosav sent a load of expensive wine to him from the Popovo field. In 1398, Queen Jelena was replaced with King Ostoja (r. 1353–77), Jelena Gruba had support in the Nikolić family, the Radivojević noble family, and Tvrtko II.

As a nobleman in the service of Sandalj Hranić, while fighting a contingent from Ston. The same year in autumn, the Ragusan senate permitted Vukosav's son, knez Grgur, to send two of his men to Ston to place a gravestone on the grave of his father ("de faciendo gratiam Gregorio, filio Vocosavi Nikolich, quod possit miter Stagnum duos ex hominibus ad ponendum super corpus patris sui plancham lapideam"). The Nikolić family were Orthodox Christian, which also shows on the gravestone of Vukosav.

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