Fran Krsto Frankopan

Franz Christoph Frangipani (around 1670)

Frankopan's sculpture in Zrinski Castle in Čakovec

Franz Christoph Frankopan ( Croatian Fran Krsto Frankopan , Hungarian Frangepán Ferenc Kristóf ; born March 4, 1643 in Bosiljevo ; † April 30, 1671 in Wiener Neustadt ) was a politician , writer and poet from the Croatian noble family Frankopan . Frankopan was Margrave of Istria and Count of Tätze (Terszacz) , a castle in the thenCroatia in the state union with Hungary (today to Cazin , Bosnia and Herzegovina ). He was executed by beheading for his involvement in the magnate conspiracy (in Croatia: Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy) .

Frankopan, along with Petar Zrinski , is a national hero in Croatia , but also for some Hungarians , because they fought against the Ottomans on the one hand and against the rule of the Habsburg monarchy on the other .

Life

Execution of Frankopan and Zrinski on the main square in Wiener Neustadt

Frankopan's and Zrinski's grave in Wiener Neustadt

Memorial ceremony for Frankopan and Zrinski in front of their memorial at Wiener Neustädter Dom on April 25, 2011

Frankopan stood with the palatine Franz Graf Wesselényi , Ferenc Graf Nádasdy and his brother-in-law Petar Zrinski at the head of the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy against Emperor Leopold I in Croatia and Hungary . In 1671 he was sentenced to death for high treason and beheaded together with Zrinski in Wiener Neustadt. His estates were confiscated and his family stripped of the nobility. The main seat of the noble dynasty was the Ozalj Castle near the town of the same name.

Honors

The April 30 of the year is a "day of the execution of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan" ( Dan pogibije Petra Zrinskog i Frana Krste Frankopana ) a national day of remembrance in the Republic of Croatia.

Frankopan is shown together with Petar Zrinski on the Croatian 5 kuna banknote (withdrawn from circulation in 2008).

The Republic of Croatia awards the Order of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan ( Red Petra Zrinskog i Frana Krste Frankopana ) founded in 1995 .

literature

Pavo Barišić: Memorial days in Croatia as a medium of storytelling . In: Emil Brix, Hannes Stekl (ed.): The struggle for memory: Public memorial days in Central Europe . Böhlau Verlag, Vienna 1997, ISBN 978-3-205-98628-7 , p. 341 ff . ( limited preview in Google book search - chapter The cult of Zrinski and Frankopan ).
Emanuel Lilek: Characteristics of the Croatian conspirators Petar Zrinski, Fr. Frankopan and Katarina Zrinska in the light of historical truth . Self-published, Celje 1928.

Web links

Commons : Fran Krsto Frankopan - collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Fran Krsto Frankopan in the catalog of the German National Library
Entry on the magnate conspiracy in the Austria Forum (in the AEIOU Austria Lexicon )

Individual evidence

↑ Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj [Law on Public Holidays, Remembrance Days and Days Off in the Republic of Croatia], November 2011.

personal data
SURNAME	Frankopan, Fran Krsto
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Frangipani; Frankapan; Frangepan; Frankopan, Franz Christoph
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian count and poet who was beheaded for a conspiracy
DATE OF BIRTH	March 4, 1643
PLACE OF BIRTH	Bosiljevo
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1671
PLACE OF DEATH	Wiener Neustadt

[1] Zakon o blagdanima, spomendanima i neradnim danima u Republici Hrvatskoj [Law on Public Holidays, Remembrance Days and Days Off in the Republic of Croatia], November 2011.