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“A Great and Particular Robber” in the Service of the Pope – Peter Kružić, the Captain of the Southernmost Part of the Anti-Ottoman Defence System in Croatia
Ivan Jurković
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When Peter Kružić started his career he was in fact already displaced, because his patrimony of Krug in the County of Nebljuh was completely devastated during the Ottoman advance. Thus he was as an refugee forced to search for a new domicile for himself and even more so for his family, the family of origin of his wife, and the families of his retainers, because he himself mostly sojourned in those places connected with his military duties, Senj and Klis, which became his trademarks and symbols as an extraordinary anti-Ottoman fighter in the circle of the European anti-Ottoman policy. In the first stage of his refugee life an important role in his survival strategies was played by adoptions, which facilitated his acceptance in a similar professional and social circle. His fame in that direction helped him to solve the problem mentioned above, when he took in lease from King Ferdinand the castle and lordship of Lupoglav in the Austrian part of Istria, but it gave rise to the new problem of accommodation and integration into the Istrian community. His distinguished social and military position was useful for easier accommodation of his family and the members of his retinue, whom he mostly brought with himself to new domicile areas and who were, for their part, unequivocally loyal and helped him to further his social advancement. The latter was further facilitated by the fact that the area of Lupoglav was inhabited by the ethnic Croatian population, and that it had already been for some time the target of massive refugee waves from the north-western areas of Croatia. Regarding the choices of strategies of survival and preservation of social position or even climbing on the social scale, Peter Kružić was unable to employ various strategies, due to the fact that he had only two legitimate sons. Thus, he relied almost exclusively on a military career for himself, while for his older son Francis he apparently planned an administrative and diplomatic career, requiring a higher level of education, but Francis’ death meant that this planned future of the family did not happen. It is noteworthy that he had also an illegitimate son and that he did not manage or did not want to legitimise him during his lifetime. However, Peter’s fame certainly helped his illegitimate son to achieve legitimisation later. Through the course of events, it was precisely this illegitimate son, John, who was the leading member of the Kružići in the next generation.
Ključne riječi
Peter Kružić; nobility; impelled displacees; social status; anti-Ottoman defence system; Croatia
Hrčak ID:
18620
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Datum izdavanja:
14.1.2008.
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