Career
He was appointed by, and was last mentioned in As the Hungarian crown"s domination over Bosnia grew, Borić became its supporter and was by made a Hungarian Viceroy of Bosnia and instated with the title of Ban of the newly created Banate of Bosnia. Borić is mentioned for the first time in, during the Byzantine-Hungarian War. As a Hungarian vassal, he took part, alongside a Bohemian detachment, in the attack on Byzantine-held Braničevo.
He had assisted Palatine Beloš in the attack.
Byzantine Emperor Manuel I dispatched a squadron of troops towards Belgrade, to cross the river Sava and chase the Hungarian army, but it was defeated. Andrew II issued a charter which confirmed some possession of the Templars in the Požega Banate (in Slavonia) that had been gifted by "Ban Borić of Bosnia" (banus Boricius de Bosna), with the permission of King Stephen (1163).
The internal struggles for the succession of the Hungarian crown between an anti-Byzantine candidate and the pro-Byzantine Stephen IV, son of King Geza, made Borić support the anti-Byzantine bloc, owing loyalty to his former superior Beloš who now served as the Ban of Croatia and was feeling a threat to his throne in the return of Imperial dominance to Bosnia. However, it remains uncertain if Borić was indeed defeated and deposed on that occasion.
In, Borić provided troops to the Hungarian Army in the battle of Zemun against the Byzantine Empire.
The Byzantines were victorious, and Bosnia became a Byzantine territory. He had possessions on both sides of the river Sava, in the Eastern and Western parts of Požega County. Borić"s descendants are sometimes referred to as the Boričević.
The extended family also included Detmar and Benedikt (also called Borić).
Simeon Bogdanović–Siniša claimed that Ana, the wife of Serbian Grand Prince Stefan Nemanja, was the daughter of Borić, however, he thought that Borić and Boris Kalamanos were the same person (when in fact, Boris died in, and Borić was alive in 1163), thus Ana would have been the daughter of Boris. Numerous later sources refer to him as the common ancestor to most Bosnian rulers including reigning kings from the Kotromanić dynasty.
Borić is believed to have been a predecessor to the noble house of Berislavići Grabarski.
