Emerik Derenčin

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Emerik Derenčin ( Latin Emericus de Derenchen , Hungarian Imre Derencsény , Croatian Mirko Derenčin ; † 1493 in Kara Hisar-i Sâhib , Ottoman Empire ) was a Ban of Croatia with Johann Both .

Life

Emerik Derenčin was a Hungarian-Croatian ban. He came from a Hungarian noble family. As a Ban he had excelled in the Turkish Wars between 1490 and 1492 , especially in the defense of the city of Jajce . From 1492 to 1493 he was captain of Senj . In the same year, next to Ivan Bota, who died in combat operations in 1493, he was appointed Croatian ban.

Krbava battle

In the late summer of 1493, on September 9, 1493, the Croatian feudal army, under the military leadership of Emerik Derenčin, surrendered to the Ottoman troops under the command of Hadum-Jakubs Pasha , the beys of the Bosnian sandjak , in the battle of the Krbava field towards the Ottomans. Despite the advice of some Croatian aristocrats involved in the battle, especially Ivan Frankopan Cetinski, that the fighting should not be carried out on one level, Emerik Derenčin ignored them, believing in arrogance and certain victory. He also mocked the Croatian nobles by accusing them of being cowards.

timeline

In the historical chronicle of the Croatian Franciscan Ivan Tomašić, the following statement by Emerik Derenčin is quoted:

"Ha, you Croatians have always been cowards". Ivan Frankopan Cetinski replied: “Today we shall see who is a coward; You will be the beginning of the disintegration of the Croatian lands today. Ban, this is not like riding from town to town and having fun playing cards, today you will see how the Turks fight ”. Ban Derenčin replied: “I will taste it”.

End of life

Under the command of Emerik Derenčin, thousands of soldiers lost their lives or were taken prisoner. In the battle on the Krbava field, Derenčin lost his own son and brother. He was captured and first taken to Istanbul . Before that, Emerik Derenčin had taken the opportunity to write and send a letter to the Hungarian King Vladislav II in the then Republic of Dubrovnik . Derenčin was detained in Kara Hisar-i Sâhib's dungeon in the Anatolia province of Bursa . After three months in prison, he died.

literature

  • Markó László: A Magyar Állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig . Magyar Könyvklub, Budapest 2000, ISBN 963-547-085-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. [1] , statements by Ban Emerik Derenčin, quoted from the historical chronicle of Franciscan Ivan Tomašić, accessed on September 19, 2008
personal data
SURNAME Derenčin, Emerik
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emericus de Derenchen, Imre Derencsény
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ban of Croatia
DATE OF BIRTH 15th century
DATE OF DEATH 1493
Place of death Kara Hisar-i Sâhib