Dorothy Garai was a Hungarian noblewoman who became Queen of Bosnia upon her marriage to King Tvrtko II in 1428.
11 Facts About Dorothy Garai
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Dorothy Garai functioned as art patron and exerted significant influence over her husband, especially over his relations with church officials, which earned her considerable notoriety in monastic circles.
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Dorothy Garai was one of the daughters of John Garai, ispan of the Temes County and ban of the Bosnian region of Usora.
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Dorothy Garai's mother was Hedwig, daughter of Siemowit IV, Duke of Masovia.
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Dorothy Garai first emerges in the late 1420s, when she resided within the Roman Catholic Diocese of Pecs and by which time her father had died.
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Dorothy Garai admitted his subjects were "shaky Christians" who often changed allegiance from the Catholic Church to the Bosnian Church or even Eastern Orthodox Church and vice versa, but Tvrtko managed to dispel doubts about his loyalty to the Pope, and the marriage went ahead.
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Dorothy Garai was specifically invoked in 1432 when they requested that the larcenous Ljubibratic noble family be banished.
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The vigorous artistic activity at the royal court in Bobovac during Dorothy Garai's queenship is linked either to her personally or to Tvrtko's desire to please her.
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Dorothy Garai became vicar and fully empowered inquisitor of Bosnia in 1435 and remained in the kingdom for four more years.
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Dorothy Garai is alleged to have eventually grown tired of trying to get rid of him and instead made peace with the saint.
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Dorothy Garai was interred in the Bobovac chapel, which had probably been built for her.