Emerik Derenčin (, ) was a Hungarian-Croatian nobleman remembered as the commander of the Croatian troops in the 1493
Battle of Krbava Field.
He was a member of the
Derencsényi family from the
kindred of Balog. Prior to becoming the
ban, Derenčin was the military captain of
Senj
Senj is a town on the upper Adriatic coast in Croatia, in the foothills of the Mala Kapela and Velebit mountains.
The symbol of the town is the Nehaj Fortress () which was completed in 1558. For a time this was the seat of the Uskoks, who were ...
, and the
ban of Jajce.
[ Vjekoslav Klaić, ''Povijest Hrvata: I Treće doba'', Book 1. Zagreb: Tisak i naklada knjižare L. Hartmana, 1904, p. 192.]
Derencsényi and
John Both were named the
Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia and
Ban of Slavonia
Ban of Slavonia (; ; ) sometimes also Ban of "Whole Slavonia" (; ; ), was the title of the governor of a territory part of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia in union with Hungary, Kingdom of Croatia.
From 1102, the title Ban (title), ...
in 1493.
In the
Battle of Krbava Field, the Croats under Derenčin suffered a devastating loss, and Derenčin himself was taken captive and killed.
Family
Derencsényi married Orsolya Zápolya, sister of
Stephen Zápolya, the
Palatine of Hungary. They had two sons and, probably, a daughter.
[Markó, László: A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig – Életrajzi Lexikon ''pp. 445-446.'' ''(The High Officers of the Hungarian State from Saint Stephen to the Present Days – A Biographical Encyclopedia)'' (2nd edition); Helikon Kiadó Kft., 2006, Budapest; .]
References
1493 deaths
Bans of Croatia
Hungarian nobility
Emeric
Year of birth unknown
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