Professional paper
Baltazar Alapić - Slavonian Viceban and Master of Veliki Kalnik
Ozren Blagec
orcid.org/0000-0002-5435-263X
; City Museum of Križevci, Križevci, Croatia
Abstract
Baltazar Alapić was a descendant of a lower rank Hungarian noble family which moved to Slavonia in the middle of the 15th century. Neither the identity of his parents, nor the date of his birth is clear. He became a citizen of Zagreb in his youth, but soon started pursuing a career in the military. He was the commander of many fortresses in Slavonia (Medvedgrad, Rakovec, Varaždin, Krupa, Japra, Božjakovina, Veliki Kalnik), while his estates were located in the Zagreb and Križevci Counties. He held the position of viceban of Slavonia on three occasions in a span of ten years from 1497 to 1516, later serving as ban of Jajce from 1511 to 1513.
He fathered at least six children from three marriages, the most famous of them being Ivan Alapić, the father of the later Slavonian Ban Gašpar Alapić. His most important estate was Veliki Kalnik, which is why he and his successors bear the surname Alapić of Veliki Kalnik. He was buried in the Church of Saint Brice in Brezovica (present-day Kalnik), which was renovated in late Gothic style a few years after his death due to the seat of the Parish of Kalnik moving from the Church of Saint Martin in Igrišće to the mentioned church.
Keywords
the Alapićs; Baltazar Alapić; Viceban; ban of Jajce; Turopolje
Hrčak ID:
200494
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Publication date:
28.12.2017.
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