in october 1484, queen maria approached the sublime porte to ask for the sultan's help in reclaiming a third of her paternal grandfather's deposit in ragusa, which she insisted had not been returned to her father. bayezid wrote to ragusa and sent an envoy to bring the gold, but the ragusans responded with a letter proving that the deposit had been returned to lazar. maria, however, disputed the authenticity of her father's seal, and bayezid sided with her. it is not known whether the ragusans obeyed bayezid's command to send the gold to the queen, but there is plenty of evidence against her allegations in the letters of her father and uncle.