Historijski zbornik, Vol. 36 , 1983.
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THE COUNTS OF CELJE AND THE LATE CROATIAN MIDDLE AGES
Tomislav Raukar
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This treatise considers the following question: in what way do we have to give marks about the activity of the feudal families in the Croatian history of the late Middle Ages? The author explains and compares the view-points of the historiography about significance of the counts of Celje in the Croatian history in the first half of the fifteenth century. He pays a special attention to those opinions in historiography in which their political and dynastic rise is emphasized. On the contrary to those standpoints according to which the counts of Celje are very positive because of their political successes during the king Sigismund and later to the death of Ulrich II in 1456, the author considers that the opinion on this family must be established upon the determining of their relations to the key-problems of the social development on our area.
First the author deals with the relation of the counts of Celje to Gradec. The king Sigismund leaves over the government upon Gradec to the counts of Celje and at the beginning of the forties Ulrich II conquers that royal city. The author considers that as the consequence of the weakening of the royal power and as the negative process in the Croatian history in the fifteenth century. Then he analyses the relation of the counts of Celje to those exterior powers which have strongly influenced upon the development of the Croatian society; especially their relation to the Turkish danger. In the middle of the fifteenth century the Turks were the most important political factors on the whole Balean peninsula. During the Turkish siege under Belgrade in 1456 Ulrich II instead of taking part into anti-turkish opposition retreats together with the king Ladislas into Vienna from Buda. The writer explains it by the common inability of the Hungarian society to fight against the Turks and by the hostile relations between Ulrich and John Hunyadi.
The history of the counts of Celje is set between the rise and limited conditions. The rise of Herman II and Ulrich II was politically magnificent but in spite of it they did not succeed to conquer the resistance of the other feudal families.
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1.4.1983.
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