Stjepan Berislavić

Stjepan Berislavić[1] (Serbian: Стефан Бериславић, Hungarian: Beriszló István; c. 1505 – 1535) was a Croatian nobleman[2] and titular Despot of Serbia between 1520 and 1535.

When Jelena remarried to Ivaniš Berislavić in 1504, he received the title, from Croato-Hungarian king Vladislaus II (d. 1516), and held it until his death in 1514.

Learning of that, Zapolja tried to suppress Stjepan's authority over Serbs by appointing Serbian nobleman Radič Božić as titular Despot of Serbia (1527–1528).

[12][13] At that time, Ferdinand's territories in Hungary were invaded again by the Ottomans, who acted as allies of rival king John Zápolya, ruler of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom.

[14][15] In a letter written from Stoni Beograd, dated 1 May 1542, his widow, Catherine Batthyany (d. after 1542), former Despotess of Serbia informs her brother, Ferenc Batthyány, former Ban of Croatia, that Murat Bey Tardić already conquered Orahovica and that she fears she will soon fall into the hands of the Ottomans.