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{{Infobox royalty
| name = Mladen III Šubić
| title = Duke of Klis, Skradin and Omiš
| image = Mladen III Šubić - nadgrobna ploča u Trogirskoj katedrali.jpg
| full name =
| caption = Replacement gravestone from 1929 in the [[Trogir Cathedral]].
| succession =
| reign1 = 1328–1348
| coronation =
| predecessor = [[Mladen II Šubić of Bribir|Mladen II]]
| successor = [[Jelena Šubić (Nemanjić)|Jelena Šubić]]
| house = [[Šubić noble family|Šubić]]
| father = [[George II Šubić of Bribir|George II]]
| mother = Lelka
| spouse = [[Jelena Šubić (Nemanjić)|Jelena Nemanjić]]
| birth_date = {{circa}} 1315
| birth_place = [[Dalmatia]] {{small|(modern Croatia)}}
| death_date = 1 May 1348
| death_place = Trogir
| date of burial =
| place of burial = [[Trogir Cathedral]]
}}

'''Mladen III Šubić''' ({{langx|hr|Mladen III. Šubić}}) ({{circa}} 1315 – [[Trogir]], 1 May 1348) was a member of the [[Croats|Croatian]] [[Šubić]] noble family, who ruled from [[Klis Fortress]]. He was in possession of [[Klis]], [[Omiš]] and [[Skradin]].<ref name="Fine1994">{{cite book | last=Fine | first=John Van Antwerp | title=The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest | publisher=The University of Michigan Press | location=Michigan | year=1994 | page=214, 323, 339–341 | isbn=0-472-08260-4}}</ref> He is also known as '''Shield of the Croats''' (Clipeus Croatorum), according to the Latin epitaph in verse on his grave in [[Trogir Cathedral]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Fine (Jr) |first=John V. A. |title=When Ethnicity Did Not Matter in the Balkans: A Study of Identity in Pre-Nationalist Croatia, Dalmatia, and Slavonia in the Medieval and Early-Modern Periods |publisher=University of Michigan Press |year=2006 |page=128 |quote=We can also find documents using the two terms "Croat" and "Slav" together. The epitaph of Mladen III Šubić, who died in Trogir in 1348, refers to him as the shield of the Croats (clipeus Croatorum), but also sazs that his death was owing to the sins of the Slavic people (Slavonie gentium) and calls upon the Slavs to cry (Flete, Slavi). Nada Klaić is almost certainly correct in saying that the epitaph's author was a Trogiranin. If so, the terminology would presumably reflect the views of a Trogir intellectual and not necessarily those of the deceased.}}</ref>

==Ruler==
He formally succeeded his father [[George II Šubić of Bribir|Juraj II Šubić]] upon his early death, though the territories were initially controlled by his mother Lelka until he reached adulthood in 1332.<ref name="CroEnc">{{Cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/bribirski-mladin-iii|title=Bribirski, Mladin III.|encyclopedia=[[Croatian Encyclopedia]]|access-date=31 March 2020}}</ref> She continued to have considerable influence on his politics afterwards.<ref name="CroEnc"/> He successfully warred against the coalition of Dalmatian cities Split, Trogir and Šibenik under [[Republic of Venice]] and the nobility under Duke of [[Knin]], [[Ivan Nelipić]], whom he pressured to return [[Ostrovica Fortress|Ostrovica]] in 1335.<ref name="Fine1994"/><ref name="CroEnc"/> He also strengthened his position by ousting opposition of Ivan Jurišić, Budislav Ugrinić and Hran Gradinić within his clan either through military or diplomatic means.<ref name="CroEnc"/> He later also allowed his uncle [[Paul II Šubić of Bribir|Paul II]] to secede as the Prince of Ostrovica.<ref name="CroEnc"/>

He was the famous Šubić from [[Klis]], but regardless of the diplomatic and dynastic success, Mladen III could not save Šubić family from its eventual fall, because he was almost only one left to defend it, and following the death of Ivan Nelipić, became the principal opposition to the Hungarian king in 1344.
[[File:Croat realms in the first half of 14th century.png|thumb|260px|Map of Croatian lands in the first half of the 14th-century]]
To oppose the Hungarian king he made various alliances. First he warred and eventually made an alliance with [[Stephen II, Ban of Bosnia]] in 1338, confirmed by marrying his sister [[Jelena Šubić]] (died c. 1378) to Regent of Bosnia [[Vladislav Kotromanić]],<ref name="CroEnc"/> and Jelena gave birth to the first Bosnian king, [[Tvrtko I]]. He neutrally allied with the Republic of Venice during [[Siege of Zadar (1345–1346)]], marrying younger brother Paul III to a Venetian noblewoman,<ref name="Fine1994"/> and took the title of Marquess of Slavonia (meaning "Croatia") in 1348, with the intention of overthrowing royal power of [[Louis I of Hungary]] over rest of Croatia.<ref name="Fine1994"/> He also married in 1347 [[Jelena Nemanjić Šubić|Jelena Nemanjić]], half-sister of the [[Emperor of the Serbs|Serbian emperor]] [[Stefan Dušan]] who had bad relations with Hungary.<ref name="Fine1994"/>

However, the anti-Hungarian plans suddenly stopped as Mladen III died on 1 May 1348, from the [[Black Death]].<ref name="CroEnc"/> He was buried in the [[Cathedral of St. Lawrence, Trogir|Cathedral of St. Lawrence in Trogir]].<ref name="Fine1994"/>

===The aftermath===
After Mladen's death, a great political and military struggle for control over [[Klis Fortress]] arose.<ref name="Fine1994"/>

* [[Catherine Dandolo]] the wife of his brother [[Pavao III Šubić Bribirski|Pavao III Šubić]] and relative of doge [[Andrea Dandolo]] wanted the fortress for Venetians.<ref name="CroEnc"/>
* [[Jelena Nemanjić Šubić]] (his wife-widow) wanted the fortress for her half-brother Stefan Dušan of Serbia.<ref name="Fine1994"/>
* [[Jelena Šubić]] (his sister) wanted the fortress for her son Tvrtko I of Bosnia.<ref>* {{Cite book|last=Ćirković|first=Sima|author-link=Sima Ćirković|title=Istorija srednjovekovne bosanske države|publisher=Srpska književna zadruga|year=1964|language=sh|page=122}}</ref>

After several diplomatic games and battles between the armies, Klis and other cities by 1355 temporary fell again into hands of king Louis I of Hungary.<ref name="Fine1994"/> Previously, with the death of Paul II Šubić and 1347 arrangement of Gregory II in the name Paul II's son George III with the king, Šubić family also lost secondary stronghold Ostrovica in exchange for [[Zrin Castle]], by which name the prominent [[Zrinski family]] branch will become known.<ref>{{cite journal | url = http://hrcak.srce.hr/index.php?show=clanak&id_clanak_jezik=11822&lang=en |trans-title= The Šubići of Bribir until the Loss of the Hereditary Position of the Croatian Ban (1322) | title=Šubići Bribirski do gubitka nasljedne banske časti (1322.) | journal=Zbornik Odsjeka za povijesne znanosti Zavoda za povijesne i društvene znanosti Hrvatske akademije znanosti i umjetnosti | publisher=[[Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts]] | last=Karbić | first=Damir |date=2004 | volume=22 | pages=25 | format=PDF | language=hr}}</ref>

==Family==
Mladen III Šubić was probably oldest son of [[Juraj II Šubić Bribirski|Juraj II Šubić]] and grandson of [[Pavao I Šubić Bribirski]], who was the most powerful Croatian noble at the end of the thirteenth century and beginning of the fourteenth century.

Mladen III Šubić had a son [[Mladen IV Šubić Bribirski|Mladen IV Šubić]].

==Grave epitaph==
{|class="wikitable"
||Latin (''Inscriptio sepulcri comitis Mladini'')<ref name="Epitaf">{{Cite web|url=http://remacle.org/bloodwolf/historiens/anonyme/epitaphe.htm|title=Anonymes: EPITAPHE DE MLADEN III ŠUBIĆ, PRINCE DE BRIBIR|website=remacle.org|accessdate=31 March 2020}}</ref><ref name="Latinisti">{{cite book|title=Hrvatski latinisti: iz latiniteta 9-14. stoljeća i pisci 15. i 16. stoljeća|volume=I|date=1968|location=Zagreb|publisher=[[Matica hrvatska]]|pages=56–59}}</ref>||Croatian translation (''Natpis na grobu kneza Mladena'')<ref name="Epitaf"/><ref name="Latinisti"/>
|-
|
<poem>
Heu gemma splendida jacet sub hac petra.
Cuius valor periit nunc in fossa tetra.
Mladinus magnificus qui Clissie fuit
Comes, suis sola spes cur tam cito ruit?
Georgii comitis memorie bone
Natus atque dominus Almesi, Scardone,
Probitatis titulus, morum et honoris
Ut flos vernans defuit vir tanti valoris.
Croatorum clipeus fortis et ipse erat
Inter omnes fortior; volens scire querat:
Eius mortem impiam cerno pro peccatis
Slavonie gentium evenisse gratis.
Flete, Slavi, nobilem nepotem banorum,
Largam vestram copiam pacis et honorum.
Sic preces altissimo date creatori,
Quod ipse misericors parcat peccatori.
Hic annorum Domini sub cursu milleni
Trecenteni insuper atque quadrageni
Octavo sub tempore traditus est limo
In Calendis Madii mensis die primo.
Cum bona sui memoria mors ipsum voravit,
Deo reddens animam hic mox expiravit.
</poem>
||
<poem>
Jao! Alem sjajni ispod ove ploče crne
Leži sad i usred tmine hrabrenost mu trne.
Svijetli Mladen, knez i slavni vladar Klisa grada.
Zašto mlad preminu, jedina svom puku nada?
Sin knez-Jurja, uspomene dobre vlastelina.
Bješe on gospodar Omiš-grada i Skradina.
Čestitosti i značaja uzora nam nesta,
Vrli junak, cvijet proljetni, živjeti nam presta.
Štit Hrvata on nam bješe, vrijedan nada svima,
Plemenit i silan, prvi branič med prvima.
Pitaš li me zašto smrt ga nevina zadesi?
Ja sad vidim: Slavskog roda ubiše ga grijesi!
Plačite, Slaveni, svijetlog unuka banova,
Zalog naših časti, zalog mira, blagoslova!
A sad vaše Previšnjemu diž'te molbe vruće,
Nek daruje grešnom svjetlost milosti moguće.
Tisuć trista četrdeset osmog ljeta
Gospodina našeg sa ovoga pođe svijeta,
U prvi dan svibnja tijelo ovdje zemlji dade,
Grob nam ga proguta i ugrabi naše nade,
Ovdje Bogu dušu dade, al' mu spomen draga
Među nama ostade, na sve vijeke blaga.
</poem>
|}

==See also==
* [[Šubić family]]
* [[Klis Fortress]]

==References==
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[[Category:Šubić family]]
[[Category:14th-century Croatian nobility|Subic]]
[[Category:14th-century Croatian military personnel|Subic]]
[[Category:1348 deaths]]
[[Category:Year of birth uncertain]]
[[Category:14th-century deaths from plague (disease)]]

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