The House of Sanković was a medieval Bosnian

Bosnian

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 noble family from Herzegovina

Herzegovina

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. Their family estates included Nevesinje

Nevesinje

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 and Popovo Polje in Herzegovina and Konavli in southern Dalmatia

Dalmatia

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History

The earliest known ancestor of the Sanković family, Dražen Bogopenec was first mentioned in 1306 CE

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. Milten Draživojević, son of Bogopenec, was first mentioned in 1332 as a henchman for Stjepan II Kotromanić, Ban of Bosnia. Draživojević was a prince (župan

Zupan

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) and his estates were Nevesinje

Nevesinje

Nevesinje is a town and municipality in Bosnia and Herzegovina, located in eastern Herzegovina between Mostar and Gacko. It is administratively part of the Republika Srpska entity.-Geography:...

 area. He had two sons and a daughter: Sanko, Gradoje and Radača.

Sanko Miltenović was first mentioned in 1335 and on 22 October 1348, Dubrovnik

Republic of Ragusa

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 granted citizenship to Sanko as an aristocrat of the Bosnian Ban. From 11 August 1366 on, Sanko was mentioned as a judge. When Nikola Altomanović

Nikola Altomanovic

Nikola Altomanović was Serbian župan from 14th century. He ruled vast areas from Rudnik, over Polimlje, Podrinje, east Herzegovina with Trebinje, till Konavle and Dračevica, neighboring the Republic of Dubrovnik...

 waged war on Dubrovnik, Sanko helped guide the Bosnian army. However, in one of these wars, Sanko was killed, but the date is unknown. Sanko had four sons and a daughter: Beljak, Radič, Budelja, Sančin and Dragana. Sanko's sons Prince Beljak and Duke Radič Sanković succeeded him. Beljak became the manager of the family's estates.

Immediately after Bosnian Ban Tvrtko I

Tvrtko I of Bosnia

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's death in 1391, Beljak and Radič decided to sell their family's estate of Konavli to Dubrovnik. A council meeting, however, was convoked as a result by the noblemen who objected the sale. Vlatko Vuković

Vlatko Vukovic

Vlatko Vuković Kosača was a medieval nobleman who ruled as Grand Duke of Hum.He was a son of Vuk Kosača, the founder of the medieval house of Kosača. He governed the province of Hum, which was part of the Banate of Bosnia. The Ottoman threat was building to the east, threatening neighboring...

 and Pavle Radenović rebelled against Radič in December of 1391 after receiving the council's blessings. They captured Konavli and occupied it, dividing it up for themselves, despite protests from Dubrovnik. When Vuković died, his nephew, Sandalj Hranić, succeeded him, continually struggling against Radič after being released in late 1398. In 1399, Radič became a member of the Great Council of the Dubrovnik Republic

Republic of Ragusa

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. Radič participated in the Bosnian-Dubrovnik War in 1403-1404, leading the attacks on Dubrovnik in the name of Ban Stjepan Ostoja

Stjepan Ostoja

Stephen Ostoja was Bosnian King from 1398 to 1404 and from 1409 to 1418.-Family connections:He was a member of the House of Kotromanić, son of Tvrtko and grandson of Vladislav of Kotroman and his wife, Jelena Šubić from the Croatian noble Šubić family...

. However, Hranić sent Sanković back to prison in 1404, blinding him and taking his estates. Sanković died while in prison that same year, marking the end of the Sanković family.

• Dražen Bogopenec
  Dražen Bogopenec
  Dražen Bogopenec was a early 14th-century Serbian noble, that held lands of Hum, centered at his birthplace Nevesinje, he is an ancestor of the House of Sanković.He is mentioned in papers from Dubrovnik in 1306....
  
  
  • Milten Draživojević
    • Sanko Miltenović
      • Beljak Sanković
      • Radič Sanković
        Radič Sanković
        Radič Sanković was a 14th-century voivode , and nobleman in present-day Herzegovina, that at his height of power held Nevesinje, Popovo Polje and Konavle, being one of the most powerful de facto-independent lords of the Kingdom of Bosnia during the rules of Stephen Dabiša and Queen Helen , and in...
        
        
      • Budelja Sanković
      • Sančin Sanković
      • Dragana Sanković
    • Gradoje Miltenović
    • Radača Miltenović