Arhivski vjesnik, Vol. 51 No. 1, 2008.
Review article
Murder of baroness Katarina Keglević committed in 1659
Luka Vukušić
; Croatian State Archives, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
In the CSA's fonds of the families Oršić and Claudius (HR HDA 749) a deed of Čazma's Kaptol from 1656 is kept, which contains testimonies of witnesses on a murder of baroness Katarina Keglević (Catherine Keglevich), ordered by her husband, duke Franjo Petričević (Francis Petrichevich), in Gornja Stubica. Special value of the text of those testimonies is in fact that, describing Petričević's crime, it clearly presents characters of the members of different social standings, and literally quoting their words, supplies us with something usually deprived in archival documents. The paper contains also a transcript and Croatian translation of the text with the testimonies of witnesses, accompanied by matching notes.
Keywords
Franjo Petričević; Katarina Keglević; nobility; 17th century; wife's murder; testimonies of witnesses; kajkavian dialect; Latin judicial documents
Hrčak ID:
29496
URI
Publication date:
8.12.2008.
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