Vukosav Nikolić
| Vukosav Nikolić | |
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| vojvoda, knez of the Kingdom of Bosnia | |
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| Noble family | Nikolić |
| Father | Vladislav Nikolić |
| Mother | Stanislava Kotromanić |
| Born | after 1344 Popovo |
| Died | 1403 Slano, Republic of Ragusa (now Croatia) |
| Occupation | Lord of Neum, the Popovo field and the Lower Neretva region |
Vukosav Nikolić (fl. 1395–d. 1403) was a nobleman 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 (1403).
The Nikolić 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, the latter being Vukosav's father. Vladislav had married Stanislava, the daughter or sister of Stephen II Kotromanić (r. 1322–1353), in 1344.
Vukosav is mentioned since 1395 at the royal court. He was the lord of Neum, the Popovo field and the Lower Neretva region.
When Stephen Dabiša (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.
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