Zrinski

The Zrinski family, known as Zr?nyi in Hungarian, was a noble family from Croatia influential in the Kingdom of Hungary during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe.

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The Zrinskis, "those of Zrin", were initially created when the King of Hungary retaliated against the ?ubi? family in 1347 for their disobedience during a dynastic struggle between the Arpads and the Angevins, confiscated their estates around Bribir (they used to be known as "princes of Bribir") in the Dalmatian hinterlands and gave them the Zrin estate in the Croatian region of Banovina, near today's Petrinja.

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The Zrinskis were Croats and played a crucial role in the history of the Croatian state, both before their arrival to Zrin and after. On the other hand, they also had the national identity called hungarus or natio hungarica, which means somebody from the kingdom of Hungary, regardless of the language they speak. They were one of many noble families in the Kingdom of Hungary.

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Because they lived, worked and intermarried with nobility from all parts of the multiethnic kingdom, it was natural and expected to be fluent in four or five languages. It is sure, that Nicholas Zrinski spoke at least Croatian, Hungarian, Italian, Turkish and of course Latin. It is also interesting that he is the most prominent Hungarian poet in the 17th century, while his brother Peter is known for his Croatian poems.

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The family gave four bans of Croatia:

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• Nicholas ?ubi? Zrinski (Nikola ?ubi? Zrinski in Croatian, Szigeti Zr?nyi Mikl?s in Hungarian) (1508-1566, ban: 1542-1556)
• George Zrinski (Juraj Zrinski in Croatian, Zr?nyi Gy?rgy in Hungarian) (ban: 1622-1626)
• Nicholas Zrinski (Nikola Zrinski in Croatian, Zr?nyi Mikl?s in Hungarian) (1620-1664, ban: 1647-1664)
• Petar Zrinski (Petar Zrinski in Croatian, Zr?nyi P?ter in Hungarian) (ban: 1665-1670)

Joannes Torquatus de Corbavia who was the ban between 1521 and 1524 had also married one Helen Zrinski. Another Helen Zrinski was the wife of Francis I R?k?czi (whom she married in 1666) and of Imre Th?k?ly (whom she married in 1682).

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During Stanley's expedition in Africa in 1882, his explorer and confidant Dragutin Lerman in Congo discovered the waterfalls which he named "Zrinski chutes."

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Already at the end of the twelfth century the ?ubi? family whose native place was Bribir inherited the title of princes and later on their power steadily increase so that in the thirteenth century they possessed the territory between the rivers Krka and Zrmanja and the sea. At the outset of the fourteenth century, Pavao ?ubi? governed Bosnia as far as the Drina. Later on the town of Zrin by which they gained the epithet, Zrinski fell into their hands. In the sixteenth century, ban Nikola Zrinski gained dominion over Medjimurje with its capital at ?akovec.

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