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https://doi.org/10.21857/yl4okf7669
“The House of the Zrinski/Zrínyi Was Never Truly a Home for the Erdődy Family”. A Chapter from the Relations between the Families of the Zrinski and the Erdődy in the Early Modern Period
Szabolcs Varga
orcid.org/0000-0001-6650-6440
; Pécsi Egyháztörténeti Intézet, Pécsi Püspöki Hittudományi Főiskola, Pečuh, Mađarska
Sažetak
This article compares the Erdődy family, of Hungarian origin, and the Zrinski/Zrínyi family, of Croatian origin. The reason for the comparison of the families is obvious: they both held the office of the ban of Croatia-Slavonia during the majority of the period under research, so they were the most honourable families of the region at that time. Interestingly, while the Zrinski/Zrínyi family held the office for 40 years, with four members of the family being bans, the five members of the Erdődy family were bans for more than 70 years. Through the comparison of their actual accomplishments, it can be seen that the Zrinski/Zrínyi family was removed from power and lost their estates, and by the eighteenth century they had become extinct. Their achievement is highly questionable, because despite their military successes they could not prevent the continuous ruin of Croatia and Slavonia. We know much less about the activity of the Erdődy family, but the careers of Peter II Erdődy, Thomas Erdődy and Nicholas Erdődy were outstanding, and the latter two had significant success in the political and military fields as well. Despite all this, regarding the level of appreciation, they dropped far behind the Zrinski/Zrínyi family, and no cult formed around them like the one that developed in the cases of Nicholas IV Zrinski/Zrínyi of Szigetvár, and Peter Zrinski/Zrínyi, executed in Wiener Neustadt. Finally, although there were three attempts at marriage between the families, these never succeeded, and so a strange situation came about: the two most powerful dynasties of the region were not directly related.
Ključne riječi
social history; political history; Slavonia; Croatia; the Zrinski/Zrínyi family; the Erdődy family
Hrčak ID:
179591
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2016.
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