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Mara Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Мара Бранковић; c. 1420 – 14 September 1487), or Mara Despina Hatun, in Europe also known as Amerissa, Sultana Maria or Sultanina, was the daughter of Serbian monarch Đurađ Branković and Eirene Kantakouzene.
Stephen Tomašević's reign in Serbia was short-lived. The Ottoman sultan Mehmed the Conqueror regarded the arrangement as an offense to his rights as overlord of Serbia. [4] On 20 June 1459, Ottoman forces captured Smederevo without a struggle [4] and proceeded to annex the remnants of the Serbian state to their realm. [6]
Since 1459, when Serbia fell under Ottoman rule, [2] Maria's father, Despot Stefan Branković, was living in exile, mainly in northern Italy, where Maria was born in 1466.In 1485, she married Boniface III Palaiologos, marquess of Montferrat, who fell ill in 1493, and Maria became regent. [3]
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The House of Branković (Serbian Cyrillic: Бранковић, pl. Brankovići / Бранковићи, pronounced [brǎːnkɔv̞itɕ]) is a Serbian medieval noble family and dynasty. [1] According to genealogies created in the first half of the 15th century, the family descends via female lineage, through marriage with the Nemanjić dynasty .
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