Countess Ana Katarina Zrinska (c. 1625–1673) was a
Croat
The Croats (; hr, Hrvati ) are a South Slavic ethnic group who share a common Croatian ancestry, culture, history and language. They are also a recognized minority in a number of neighboring countries, namely Austria, the Czech Republic, Ge ...
ian noblewoman and poet, born into the
House of Frankopan
The House of Frankopan ( hr, Frankopani, Frankapani, it, Frangipani, hu, Frangepán, la, Frangepanus, Francopanus), was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croat ...
, Croatian noble family. She married Count
Petar Zrinski of the
House of Zrinski
Zrinski () was a Croatian nobility, Croatian-Hungarian nobility, Hungarian noble family, a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić family, Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the C ...
in 1641 and later became known as Katarina Zrinska. She is remembered in Croatia as a
patron of the arts
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, a writer and patriot. She died in obscurity in a monastery in
Graz
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following the downfall of the
Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy in 1671 and the execution of both her husband Petar Zrinski and her brother
Fran Krsto Frankopan
Fran Krsto Frankopan ( hu, Frangepán Ferenc Kristóf; 4 March 1643 – 30 April 1671) was a Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician. He is remembered primarily for his involvement in the failed Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy. He was ...
. Her most notable literary work is
Putni tovaruš, written 1660 at her estates in
Ozalj.
Katarina Zrinski and the conspiracy were largely forgotten until the 1860s, when Croatian politician
Ante Starčević
Ante Starčević (; 23 May 1823 – 28 February 1896) was a Croatian politician and writer. His policies centered around Croatian state law, the integrity of Croatian lands, and the right of his people to self-determination. As an important me ...
began a campaign to
rehabilitate the Zrinski and Frankopan nobility, and the story of her life and death was widely popularised following the publishing of
Eugen Kumičić's historical novel ''Urota Zrinsko-Frankopanska'' ( en, The Zrinski-Frankopan Conspiracy) in 1893.
In the early 20th century, and especially after
World War I, numerous Croatian women's associations were founded bearing her name. In 1999 the
Croatian National Bank issued a silver commemorative coin depicting Katarina Zrinski, in their ''Znamenite Hrvatice'' ( en, Famous Croatian Women) series, along with children's writer
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić
Ivana Brlić-Mažuranić (; 18 April 1874 – 21 September 1938) was a Croatian writer. Within her native land, as well as internationally, she has been praised as the best Croatian writer for children.
Early life
She was born on 18 April 1874 i ...
and painter
Slava Raškaj.
Biography
Early life
Katarina was born in
Bosiljevo
Bosiljevo is a village and municipality in Karlovac County, Croatia. It is located in the Gorski Kotar region, 25 km south-west from Karlovac, on the highways A1 and A6 leading to Zagreb, Rijeka and Split.
Settlements
The total popul ...
near the modern city of
Karlovac
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Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Za ...
in present-day
Croatia
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to
Vuk Krsto Frankopan of the
House of Frankopan
The House of Frankopan ( hr, Frankopani, Frankapani, it, Frangipani, hu, Frangepán, la, Frangepanus, Francopanus), was a Croatian noble family, whose members were among the great landowner magnates and high officers of the Kingdom of Croat ...
, a well-known commander (
general
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In some usages the term "general officer" refers to a rank above colonel."general, adj. and n.". O ...
) and nobleman in the
Croatian Military Frontier
The Croatian Military Frontier ( hr, Vojna krajina or ') was a district of the Military Frontier, a territory in the Habsburg monarchy, first during the period of the Austrian Empire and then during Austria-Hungary.
History
Founded in the late 1 ...
(which was an autonomous region carved out of the
Kingdom of Croatia within the
Austrian Empire
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) and his second wife Uršula Inhofer.
Fran Krsto Frankopan
Fran Krsto Frankopan ( hu, Frangepán Ferenc Kristóf; 4 March 1643 – 30 April 1671) was a Croatian baroque poet, nobleman and politician. He is remembered primarily for his involvement in the failed Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy. He was ...
, also a notable nobleman, was her half brother, produced in Vuk Krsto's third marriage to Dora Haller.
She was homeschooled in her youth, and learned German during her childhood years (as it was her mother's
first language
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) along with Hungarian, Latin and Italian which she was later taught. In 1641 she married the Croatian nobleman
Petar Zrinski in
Karlovac
Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 census, its population was 55,705.
Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Za ...
, who later went on to become ''
Ban'' (viceroy) of Croatia following his brother
Nikola Zrinski's death in 1664. After marrying Petar the pair spent most of their time at
Ozalj Castle, the family residence.
In 1660 she wrote a
prayer book
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titled ''Putni tovaruš'', and had it printed in 1661 in the
Republic of Venice
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before presenting it as a gift to the 17th century Croatian lexicographer
Ivan Belostenec (the book was later re-printed in 1687 and 1715 in
Ljubljana
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During antiquity, a Roman city called Emona stood in the a ...
and then again in 2005 in
Čakovec
Čakovec (; hu, Csáktornya; la, Aquama; german: Tschakathurn) is a city in northern Croatia, located around north of Zagreb, the Croatian capital. Čakovec is both the county seat and the largest city of Međimurje County, the northernmost, s ...
).
Children
Katarina and Petar had four children, born between 1643 and 1658:
*Jelena (1643 – 18 February 1703)
Known as
Jelena Zrinska in Croatia and
Ilona Zrínyi in Hungary, she married Hungarian nobleman
Francis I Rákóczi in 1666. After his death in 1676, she married her second husband
Imre Thököly
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, a Hungarian statesman and Prince of
Transylvania
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, in 1682. She was also mother to
Francis II Rákóczi
Francis II Rákóczi ( hu, II. Rákóczi Ferenc, ; 27 March 1676 – 8 April 1735) was a Hungarian nobleman and leader of Rákóczi's War of Independence against the Habsburgs in 1703–11 as the prince ( hu, fejedelem) of the Estates Confederat ...
, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in the early 18th century.
In her later years she spent 7 years interned in an
Ursuline convent in Austria before being exiled to Turkey in 1699 where she died four years later in 1703.
*Judita Petronela (1652–1699)
One of the two Katarina's daughters who spent the majority of their adult life in convents, Judita died as a nun in a
Poor Clares
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convent in
Zagreb
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.
*Ivan IV Antun Baltazar (26 August 1654 – 11 November 1703)
In Croatia known as
Ivan Antun Zrinski, he was the pair's only son. After a short military career demonstrating his loyalty to the State, he was later charged with
high treason
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by the Austrian authorities. He was imprisoned first at
Rattenberg in
Tyrol
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and then at
Grazer Schloßberg, where he spent the last 20 years of his life. He eventually went insane and died in 1703.
*Aurora Veronika (1658 – 19 January 1735)
The pair's youngest child and the last surviving member of the once powerful
House of Zrinski
Zrinski () was a Croatian nobility, Croatian-Hungarian nobility, Hungarian noble family, a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić family, Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the C ...
. Following the crackdown on the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy (see below), she accompanied her mother during her internment at a Dominican convent in Graz. Aurora later spent her whole life as a nun and eventually died in an
Ursuline convent in
Klagenfurt
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.
Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy
Following the unpopular
Peace of Vasvár
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treaty signed in 1664 by the Austrian
Habsburg monarchy
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and the
Ottoman Empire
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which gave back parts of the territory which had been liberated from the Turks in the preceding
Austro-Turkish War (1663–1664)
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, a conspiracy involving members of the Croatian and Hungarian nobility was formed to overthrow the Habsburgs. The leaders of the conspiracy were Katarina's husband Petar Zrinski, her half brother Fran Krsto Frankopan and the Hungarian count
Ferenc Wesselényi. The conspiracy was largely unsuccessful and in March 1670 a crackdown ordered by
Leopold I ensued, in which all three men were arrested and imprisoned. On 30 April 1671 both Petar and Fran Krsto were executed in
Wiener Neustadt
Wiener Neustadt (; ; Central Bavarian: ''Weana Neistod'') is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land Distr ...
.
On the eve of his execution, her husband wrote her a farewell letter:
The downfall of the conspiracy practically destroyed the
House of Zrinski
Zrinski () was a Croatian nobility, Croatian-Hungarian nobility, Hungarian noble family, a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić family, Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the C ...
as their enormous property was either confiscated or plundered. Katarina was first arrested and imprisoned in
Bruck an der Mur
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and then ordered into seclusion by the Vienna court. She spent the remaining years of her life in a
Dominican convent in
Graz
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with her daughter Aurora Veronika, where she died on 16 November 1673.
Poetry and writing
Her most known work,
Putni tovaruš (Travel companion), was a prayer book published in 1660 and mostly translated from German-language prayers. The prose is considered to be of high literary quality, reaching at times the expressive heights of poetry, and was as such republished multiple times. The language is part of the Ozalj literary circle, using a dialectal mixture of
Chakavian
Chakavian or Čakavian (, , , sh-Latn, čakavski proper name: or own name: ''čokovski, čakavski, čekavski'') is a South Slavic regiolect or language spoken primarily by Croats along the Adriatic coast, in the historical regions of Dalm ...
,
Kajkavian
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and
Shtokavian
Shtokavian or Štokavian (; sh-Latn, štokavski / sh-Cyrl, italics=no, штокавски, ) is the prestige dialect of the pluricentric Serbo-Croatian language and the basis of its Serbian, Croatian, Bosnian and Montenegrin standards. I ...
regiolects.
There are two poems that can be ascribed to her with absolute certainty, the introductory poem in Putni tovaruš, titled ''Vsakomu onomu ki bude štal ove knjižice'', and a poem contained within a songbook attributed to her under the name ''Popivka od razboja Čingićevoga'', which celebrates her husband's victory over the Ottomans. Literary historians ascribe 30 more poems to her contained within the songbook. Nearly all of them are confessional and self-pitying thematically, and written in feminine first person.
The poems of Ana Katarina Zrinski - poetics and context
Davor Dukić, Jasmina Lukec
Legacy
1860s–1940s
Croatian politician Ante Starčević
Ante Starčević (; 23 May 1823 – 28 February 1896) was a Croatian politician and writer. His policies centered around Croatian state law, the integrity of Croatian lands, and the right of his people to self-determination. As an important me ...
is considered the first person who initiated a campaign to politically rehabilitate leaders of the conspiracy in the speech he gave on 26 July 1861 in the Croatian Parliament
The Croatian Parliament ( hr, Hrvatski sabor) or the Sabor is the unicameral legislature of the Republic of Croatia. Under the terms of the Croatian Constitution, the Sabor represents the people and is vested with legislative power. The Sabo ...
. The speech spurred renewed interest in the whole affair and anniversaries of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan's deaths started to be commemorated publicly in growing numbers, with increasingly political overtones, as Croatian politicians became vocal in their calls for greater Croatian independence (which was at the time still part of Austria-Hungary
Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire,, the Dual Monarchy, or Austria, was a constitutional monarchy and great power in Central Europe#Before World War I, Central Europe between 1867 and 1918. It was formed with t ...
). In the 1880s a committee was even founded with the purpose of transporting their remains from Wiener Neustadt
Wiener Neustadt (; ; Central Bavarian: ''Weana Neistod'') is a city located south of Vienna, in the state of Lower Austria, in northeast Austria. It is a self-governed city and the seat of the district administration of Wiener Neustadt-Land Distr ...
to Croatia, and in 1893 writer and politician Eugen Kumičić published a historical novel titled ''Urota Zrinsko-Frankopanska'' ( en, The Zrinski-Frankopan Conspiracy), which helped to further popularise the image of Zrinkis and Frankopans as Croatian patriots and martyrs for freedom.
The bones of conspiracy leaders were eventually transferred back to Croatia in 1919 by the Brethren of the Croatian Dragon
The Society of Brethren of the Croatian Dragon ( Croatian: Družba "Braća Hrvatskoga Zmaja"; Latin: ''Societas "Fratres Draconis Croatici"'') is a Croatian historical and cultural society founded on November 16th, 1905.
History
The Society wa ...
and were greeted by masses upon their return to Zagreb
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. By that time Katarina Zrinski also came to be seen as the greatest Croatian woman of the past and a symbol of patriotism for women in Croatia. In the years before World War I many women's societies sprung up around the country as well as in the Croatian diaspora
The Croatian diaspora consists of communities of ethnic Croats and/or Croatian citizens living outside Croatia.
Estimates on its size are only approximate because of incomplete statistical records and naturalization, but (highest) estimates sugges ...
. The oldest such association bearing Katarina's name was founded in 1914 in Punta Arenas
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in Chile
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. It was originally called ''Hrvatska žena'' ( en, Croatian Woman) and was primarily interested in keeping the Croatian language alive and helping Croatian women cope with life far from home. However, soon after WWI broke out, the society was actively engaged in helping the Pan-Slavic
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Yugoslav movement and was thus renamed ''JNO Katarina Zrinska''. In North America the ''Kćeri Katarine Zrinjske'' ( en, Daughters of Katarina Zrinski) society was formed in 1917 which even had a youth branch in Youngstown, Ohio
Youngstown is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio, and the largest city and county seat of Mahoning County. At the 2020 census, Youngstown had a city population of 60,068. It is a principal city of the Youngstown–Warren metropolitan area, whic ...
.
In 1919 the ''Katarina Zrinjska'' women's association was formed in Karlovac
Karlovac () is a city in central Croatia. According to the 2011 census, its population was 55,705.
Karlovac is the administrative centre of Karlovac County. The city is located on the Zagreb- Rijeka highway and railway line, south-west of Za ...
, the first association bearing her name in Croatia. The society was designed as an organisation of middle class
The middle class refers to a class of people in the middle of a social hierarchy, often defined by occupation, income, education, or social status. The term has historically been associated with modernity, capitalism and political debate. Co ...
Croatian Catholic women in the area, and they claimed they chose to be named after Katarina because "strictly adhered to Christian principles throughout her life". The proclaimed goal of the society was to "encourage members to be good Catholics, honest citizens, women of significance, model mothers, advanced housekeepers and apostles of all things good", which they hoped to achieve by organising picnics, concerts, education classes, fundraisers, lectures, etc. In 1920 a similar ''Društvo Hrvatica Katarine grofice Zrinjski'' was established in Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and S ...
and in 1930 another one was founded in Petrinja
Petrinja () is a town in central Croatia near Sisak in the historic region of Banovina. It is administratively located in Sisak-Moslavina County.
On December 29, 2020, the town was hit by a strong earthquake with a magnitude of 6.4 , causing s ...
. All these societies were active until the early 1940s, but were eventually disbanded in May 1943 by a decree issued by the fascist government of Independent State of Croatia
The Independent State of Croatia ( sh, Nezavisna Država Hrvatska, NDH; german: Unabhängiger Staat Kroatien; it, Stato indipendente di Croazia) was a World War II-era puppet state of Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy. It was established in p ...
.
1990s–present
The women's societies of the past and their work were largely forgotten during the SFR Yugoslavia
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period (1945–1990), until the modern-day ''Zajednica žena Katarina Zrinska'' ( en, Community of Women Katarina Zrinska) was founded in 1999 in Split, as the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union
The Croatian Democratic Union ( hr, Hrvatska demokratska zajednica, lit=Croatian Democratic Community, HDZ) is the major conservative, centre-right political party in Croatia. It is one of the two major contemporary political parties in ...
(HDZ) party's women's branch. Other associations abroad carrying her name include ''Hrvatska žena – Katarina Zrinska'' in Adelaide
Adelaide ( ) is the capital city of South Australia, the state's largest city and the fifth-most populous city in Australia. "Adelaide" may refer to either Greater Adelaide (including the Adelaide Hills) or the Adelaide city centre. The dem ...
, Australia (est. 1974), ''HŠKD Croatia Katarina Zrinski'' in Gothenburg
Gothenburg (; abbreviated Gbg; sv, Göteborg ) is the second-largest city in Sweden, fifth-largest in the Nordic countries, and capital of the Västra Götaland County. It is situated by the Kattegat, on the west coast of Sweden, and has a ...
, Sweden, and many others.
Many streets and squares around Croatia are named after her, including the ''Katarinin trg'' ( en, Catherine's Square) in the Upper Town part of Zagreb
Zagreb ( , , , ) is the capital and largest city of Croatia. It is in the northwest of the country, along the Sava river, at the southern slopes of the Medvednica mountain. Zagreb stands near the international border between Croatia and S ...
, located next to the Jesuit
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church of St. Catherine's built between 1620 and 1632 in the baroque
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style. Many schools and institutions are also named after her.
In 1999 the Croatian National Bank issued a 200 kuna silver commemorative coin with Katarina Zrinski as part of their "Famous Croatian Women" series. In their press release the bank described Katarina as "a writer, ardent patriot and a martyr, as well as a spiritual initiator of the liberation movement against foreign rule".
See also
*Zrinski family tree This is the family tree of the Princes of Zrin, a Croatian noble family, from 1347 to 1703.
See also
* House of Zrinski
* House of Šubić
* Šubić family tree
* Frankopan family tree
* List of rulers of ...
References
External links
Katarina Zrinska short biography
at the Croatian National Bank website
Article about Katarina Zrinski
published in July 2007 by '' Matica hrvatska''
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