Михаило Кабужић, дубровачки одметник - босански дипломата
Mihailo Kabužić, Outlaw of Dubrovnik - Diplomat of Bosnia

Summary/Abstract: The article covers the turbulent career of Mihailo Kabužić (Michael de Caboga), one of the few nobles of Dubrovnik who were convicted of betrayal of the Republic while being in the service of a foreign ruler or magnate. This paper is the first that gathers and reinterprets all known facts concering his political activity. As a descendant of an influential noble family, he could expect to participate in the government of his hometown but, instead of that, after getting heavily into debt, he entered the service of a mighty Bosnian magnate, great duke Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić. In the period between 1410 and 1416 he held many offices in Hrvoje’s structure of power – he was the count of Omiš, Brač, Hvar and Korčula, the governer of the strategically important fortress of Bistrica, the protovestiarius (the highest financial official). However, Kabužić earned his place in historical textbooks after he had, by the orders of his lord, gone to Turkey and, together with the Ottoman sultan, organized the attack of Turkish marcher wardens on Bosnia, in the spring of 1414. The attack aimed at relieving the pressure that Hrvoje’s territories were suffering from the Hungarian king and the rival magnates but, in fact, the Turks became a lasting factor in the region which led to the fall of the medieval Bosnian state in 1463. Hrvoje also intended to give away his house and estates in Dubrovnik to Kabužić, which prompted a swift reaction of the authorities of the Republic – the prohibition of involvement of domestic nobles in the matters of the estates which had been given to foreign kings or nobles. The feud concerning Hrvoje’s house, organization of Turkish assault and his activities against the interests of Dubrovnik in Central Dalmatia led to Kabužić’s fall out of favour of his hometown which he had already come to dislike.

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