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Katarina Kosača-Kotromanić was queen of Bosnia as the wife of Stjepan Tomaš. She was the daughter of Stjepan Vukčić Kosača, duke of Hum.
She was born c.1425 in Mostar and died on November 25 1478 in Rome. Her marriage to Stjepan Tomaš in 1446 helped unite Hum (today's Herzegovina) and Bosnia at a time when the Ottoman Empire's expansion was looming. Katarina spent much of her time in Kupres where she was sheltered from the front lines. Here she helped build the Church of the Blessed Trinity.
Stjepan Tomaš died in 1461. Tomaš's son from a previous marriage, Stjepan Tomašević succeeded him as king. This was a short-lived reign as he was killed in 1463 by the Ottoman army of Mehmed II as they conquered the nation. Katarina was able to escape this fate. She travelled to Dubrovnik where she acted as the representative of the Bosnian kingdom. When it became clearer that the Turks were entrenched in Bosnia, she moved to Rome. She lived here until her death. It is interesting to note that in her will she left all of the kingdom, which she was the final monarch of, to the Holy See.
Catholics from the region (mostly Croats) often visit her tomb in the Roman church of Santa Maria in Aracoeli.