Petar I Pavlović


Petar Pavlović
Grand Duke of Bosnia
Seal of Petar and Radosav Pavlović
Coat of arms
feudal lord, highest military office1415-1420
PredecessorPavle Radinović
SuccessorRadosav Pavlović
Full name
Petar I Pavlović
Native namePetar
Years active1415-death
Bornunknown
Borač Castle
Died1420
eastern Bosnia
Cause of deathkilled in action
Buriedprobably in Lukavica, south of present-day Sarajevo
NationalityBosnian
ResidenceBorač Castle
LocalityPrača
FamilyPavlović
FatherPavle Radinović

Petar I Pavlović (Serbian Cyrillic: Петар I Павловић; died 1420) was a knez, and then a Grand Duke of Bosnia, from the noble family of Pavlović, which had its possessions in the eastern parts of the Kingdom of Bosnia. After the murder of his father Pavle Radinović (died 1415) on Parena Poljana near royal court in Sutjeska and below a Bobovac in 1415, after the stanak at which whole Pavlović family was present at, Petar took over the leadership of the Pavlovići and with his younger brother Knez Radosav (1420–1441) started a war against Sandalj Hranić (1392–1435) and Kosača klan. In that conflict, he relied on the help of the Ottomans, whose help he paid for by recognizing vassal relations to the sultan, which also resulted in successful campaigns against Sandalj, who was completely suppressed. However, the Ottomans changed sides and arrived in the Kingdom of Bosnia in 1420 as Sandalj's allies against Pavlović. In the conflict with them, Petar himself was killed, and his younger brother Radosav succeeds him as the leader of Pavlović and the Grand Duke of Bosnia.