Petar Zrinski

. Peter IV Šubić of Zrin shortly . Peter IV Zrinski ( Croatian . Petar IV Zrinski , Hungarian . Zrínyi IV Péter * 6. June 1621 in Vrbovec , † the thirtieth April 1671 in Wiener Neustadt ) was a statesman , military leader and writer of the Croatian - Hungarian noble family Zrinski . He was Ban of Croatia from 1665 to 1671 and became a magnate because of his involvement in the conspiracyexecuted by beheading .

Together with Fran Krsto Frankopan, Zrinski is considered a national hero in Croatia and Hungary , as both fought against the rule of the Ottomans and the Habsburg monarchy .

Life

Petar Zrinski in 1650

origin

Zrinski was the son of Juraj Zrinski and his wife Countess Magdalena Széchy . He came from a branch of the noble family of Šubić , which since 1347 after Zrin Castle as Prince of Zrin designated. In 1554 the family was raised to the rank of count .

Turkish Wars

Petar Zrinski as the victorious general against the Turks at the siege of Neu-Zrin (1664)

Petar distinguished himself together with his brother Nikolaus Zrinski in the Turkish war of 1663/1664 . Both the Hungarian troops and the Imperial Army were able to win victories over the Ottomans, but they were not used.

In addition, Zrinski accompanied the Saxon Elector Johann Georg II together with Frankopan to the Reichstag in Regensburg in 1664 . Both were sitting with the elector in his six-horse carriage when the latter, escorted by his personal company, entered Croats on horseback .

The peace of Eisenburg / Vasvár, concluded by Emperor Leopold I in 1664 , in which the Ottomans were given back occupied territories in Hungary, caused great discontent among the Hungarian and Croatian nobility, the deeper cause of which, however, lay in the absolutist policy of the emperor who protected the rights of Wanted to circumcise the nobility of St. Stephen's Crown.

Conspiracy and execution

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

Memorial plaque on the former place of execution, by the southern city wall of Wr. Neustadt

This formed the breeding ground for the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy against the emperor, in which Petar Zrinski also participated. The goal was the independence of Croatia from the Habsburgs. Zrinski sought support from foreign monarchs for his project, in particular from France, as the main opponent of Habsburgs, he hoped for support.

The conspiracy was exposed and Zrinski was lured to Vienna on a pretext , where he was arrested and sentenced to death. He was beheaded on April 30, 1671 together with the co-conspirator Fran Krsto Frankopan in Wiener Neustadt , Franz III. Nádasdy was executed in Vienna on the same day.

Marriage and offspring

Zrinski married the sixteen year old Ana Katarina Frankopan on October 27, 1641 at the age of 20 ; they lived mainly in Ozalj Castle (northwestern Croatia ). The marriage resulted in the son Ivan Antun and the three daughters Jelena , Judita Petronila and Aurora Veronika.

Honors

The historicizing Zrinska Garda at the monument to Frankopan and Zrinski in Čakovec (April 30, 2011)

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.

Zrinski is shown together with Fran Krsto Frankopan 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 .

The military school of the Republic of Croatia in Zagreb bears his name ( Hrvatsko vojno učilište "Petar Zrinski" ).

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 , chapter The cult of Zrinski and Frankopan , p. 341 ff . ( limited preview in Google Book search).
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 : Petar Zrinski - collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Petar Zrinski in the catalog of the German National Library
Illustration by Mathias van Somer from 1665:… Peterus á Zrino… ( digitized version )

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	Zrinski, Petar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Zrínyi, Peter (Hungarian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Croatian national hero
DATE OF BIRTH	June 6, 1621
PLACE OF BIRTH	Vrbovec
DATE OF DEATH	April 30, 1671
PLACE OF DEATH	Wiener Neustadt , Austria

[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.