Juraj IV Zrinski
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Zrínyi IV. György
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| father = Nikola IV Zrinski
| mother = Katarina Zrinski (born Frankopan)
| birth_date = 13 April 1549
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Juraj IV Zrinski ({{langx|hu|Zrínyi IV. György}}) (Čakovec, 13 April 1549 – Vép by Szombathely, 4 May 1603) was a Croatian count, a member of the Zrinski noble family, and royal Master of the treasury from 1567 until his death in 1603.
Life
File:Tripartitum 1574.jpg Juraj Zrinski had 1574 in Nedelišće printed]]
He was the son of Croatian Ban (viceroy) Nikola IV Zrinski (*1508 - †1566.), the hero of Szigetvar, and his wife Katarina Zrinski née Frankopan (married 1543, died 1561), a Croatian countess.
File:Čakovečka povelja Jurja IV. Zrinskog (1579).JPG
File:Juraj Zrinski - otkrivanje spomenika u Čakovcu.3.jpg]]
From his father he inherited a large number of estates, among which was the Međimurje County, the northernmost part of Croatia, with the large and strongly fortified Čakovec castle. He succeeded his father at the royal position of the Master of the treasury in the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, which held until his death.
In the time of growing and spreading Protestantism, Zrinski accepted it and adducted the Lutheran pastors to replace the Catholic priests in Croatian parishes, which caused indignation and revolt of the people. He was a friend of Nikola I. Mlakovečki,{{Cite web |date=2025-03-21 |title=Good faith produces good works |url=https://www.matica.hr/vijenac/624/dobra-vjera-daje-dobra-djela-27483/ |access-date=2025-03-21 |website=matica.hr |language=hr}} one of the leading Protestant nobles in Croatia.
On the other hand, his contribution was the introduction of book printing into northern Croatia. In the early 1570s he invited an Austrian printer and grafic expert named Rudolf Hoffhalter to found a printing office in Nedelišće, a village next to Čakovec. Many publications were printed there in the next couple of years (probably until 1586), among which was the famous juristic book Decretum tripartitum of the publisher Ivanuš Pergošić, the first book ever in Croatian Kajkavian dialect, printed in 1574.
Like his ancestors and descendants, Zrinski took part in battles against the Ottomans, who conquered most of Croatia, and he often carried out the sudden attacks to the hinterland of the enemy in order to slow down or stop them from further conquests.
On 29 May 1579 he granted privileges to the inhabitants of the Čakovec fortress and its suburbs. This was the starting point for Čakovec to become a free market town and the date is celebrated today as Čakovec City Day.
Juraj IV Zrinski was married twice with ladies from Arco family of Tyrol and Stubenberg family of Styria,{{cite book|author1-link=James Tracy (historian)|last=Tracy|first=James D.|title=Balkan Wars: Habsburg Croatia, Ottoman Bosnia, and Venetian Dalmatia, 1499–1617|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=KHCPDAAAQBAJ|year=2016|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers|isbn=978-1-4422-1360-9|pages=253}} with whom he had four children. His sons Nikola VI and Juraj V (future Croatian Ban) succeeded him when he died in 1603. He was buried in Pauline monastery of Sveta Jelena (St. Helen) near Čakovec, next to the grave where the head of his famous father had been buried 37 years before.
See also
References
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Further reading
- {{cite book |date=1917-07-13 |orig-date=written 1589-05-29 |editor-first=Ferdo |editor-last=Šišić |chapter=Zaključci hrvatsko-slavonskoga sabora sazvana u Zagreb za 29. maja |pages=245–252 |title=Hrvatski saborski spisi |series=Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium |volume=XLI,IV |url=http://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:275:730528 |location=Zagreb |language=la}}
- {{cite book |date=1917-07-13 |orig-date=written 1602-11-11 |editor-first=Ferdo |editor-last=Šišić |chapter=Articuli dominorum et nobilium aliorumque statuum et ordinum regni Sclavoniae in generali eorum congregatione ex edicto spectabilis et magnifici domini Joannis Draskowych de Thrakostan etc. bani Zagrabiae in festo beati Martini episcopi et confessoris celebrata, editi et conclusi anno domini millesimo sexcentesimo secundo |pages=430–434 |title=Hrvatski saborski spisi |series=Monumenta spectantia historiam Slavorum meridionalium |volume=XLI,IV |url=http://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:275:730528 |location=Zagreb |language=la}}
External links
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- {{cite web |last=Marek |first=Miroslav |url=http://genealogy.euweb.cz/hung/zrinyi.html |title= hung/zrinyi.html |publisher=Genealogy.EU}}
- https://web.archive.org/web/20110722172929/http://www.tzm.hr/article.php?g=42
- http://bib.irb.hr/prikazi-rad?&rad=173056
- [http://enjoymedjimurje.blogspot.com/ Drawing of Juraj IV Zrinski on a horse]
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Category:Masters of the treasury (Kingdom of Hungary)
Category:17th-century Croatian nobility
Category:16th-century Croatian military personnel