The House of Keglević or Keglevich is a Croatian noble family originally from Northern Dalmatia, whose members were prominent public citizens and military officers. As experienced warriors, they actively participated in the Croatian–Ottoman and Ottoman–Hungarian wars, as well were patrons of the arts and holders of the rights of patronage over churches and parishes.Enciklopedija, opća i nacionalna u 20 knjiga, Antun Vujić, Pro Leksis (etc.), Zagreb 2005.Građa za istoriju vojne granice u XVIII veku, Slavko Gavrilović, Radovan Samardžić, Srpska akademija nauka i umetnosti, Beograd 1989.
History The first known ancestor was Peter de genereFrom the 1220s, several individuals commenced to refer to their clan in the official documents by using the expression de genere ("from the kindred of") following their name which suggests that the relevance even of distant kinship started to increase. See Fügedi, Erik (1986). Ispánok, bárók, kiskirályok ('Counts, Barons and Petty Kings'). Budapest: Magvető Könyvkiadó, p. 79. Percal, a castle lord, who was mentioned in a supreme court verdict by Mladen II Šubić in Northern Dalmatia (Pozrmanje) about the right to judge a case concerning grazing rights in a village in the year 1322. Peter was mentioned as a son of Budislav de genere Percal and as a brother of Jakob de genere Percal, and his family was explicitly called nostra nobilissima familia (our most noble family).Starine, svezak 44, stranica 250, Jugoslavenska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti, Hrvatska akademija znanosti i umjetnosti. Razred za društvene znanosti, Akademija, 1952.Zsigmondkori oklevéltár: 1413-1414, Volume 25 of Publicationes archivi nationalis Hungarici / 2, page 287, Magyar Országos Levéltár (Budapest), Magyar Országos Levéltár kiadványai: Forráskiadványok Volume 4 of Zsigmondkori oklevéltár, Elemér Mályusz, Iván Borsa, Akadémiai Kiadó, 1994, Acta Keglevichiana annorum 1322 - 1527: najstarije isprave porodice Keglevića do boja na Muhačkom polju, Vjekoslav Klaić, 1917.
Stephanos Keglevich de Porychane was mentioned in 1386 as "Stephanus Maurus the procurator of the church of Saint Saviour (St. Salvator) in Šibenik", in 1413 he inherited the "terra Porychan" (beneath their Kegaljgrad) as "Stephanus Maurus" and in 1435 he was mentioned as "Stephanos Keglevich de Porychane the son of Kegal de genere Percal". Since 1412 the family is mentioned only under the patronymic of Kegal/Kegalj - Keglević. The church of the Holy Saviour (Sveti Spas, St. Salvator) in Šibenik was built until 1390, belonged to a Benedictine convent and was since 1807 until 1810 the Orthodox parish church, but it is not the present church of Holy Saviour in Šibenik, because this was built in 1778 as Christ's Ascension Church and later changed the name. It is since 1810 the Assumption of Mary Church.Treasures of Yugoslavia: an encyclopedic touring guide, page 233, Nebojša Tomašević, translated by Madge Tomašević and Karin Radovanović, Yugoslaviapublic 1982. The Procurators work closely with architects and engineers to ensure the building of the church. Pope Boniface IX founded in 1391 the monastery of Saint Clara in Šibenik and ordered to build another church for it, because, as he wrote, there were some wives at the newly built church of St. Salvator, but they were obviously not sitting on rules.Pope Boniface IX about the wives in Šibenik
Since 1487 their estates expanded into županijas of Knin, Nebljuh, Gacka, and Lika, as well city of Bužim in 1495. Since the Ottoman intrusion family and its branches migrated to županija of Zagreb, Varaždin, region of Slavonia, and the Kingdom of Hungary (where was founded in the 17th century the Hungarian branch of the family). In the 16th century they had so many estates in Međimurje that were obligated by Croatian Sabor in 1542 to return the region to Ferdinand I, Holy Roman Emperor, but Ferdinand I returned the most of it five years later. Because of it, had half a century conflict with the Székely von Kövend noble family for Krapina and Kostel estates.
Gloss This surname became a victim of the Austrian Nazi propaganda.
Properties
Coats of arms Coat of arms of the House of Keglević de Porychane until 1490.de gueules à deux fasces d'argent.Gules, two bars argent.with a lion holding a sun,cit: Hunc iste, postquam Dalmatae pacto hoc a Hungaria separati se non tulissent, revocatum contra Emericum armis vindicavit, ac Chelmensi Ducatu, ad mare sito, parteque Macedoniae auxit. AD 1199. Luc. lib. IV. cap. III. Diplomata Belae IV. AD 1269.see also: Lion and Sun Coat of arms of theHouse of Keglević de Buzinsince 1494.cit: Leopold I, King of Hungary in 1687 in Bratislava: "Counts in Hungary", "Invictus est.", Der Adel von Kroatien und Slawonien, Nürnberg 1899, Nachdruck Neustadt and d. Aisch, Bauer & Raspe, 1986, Coat of arms of theHouse of Keglević de Buzinsince 1687.Deutsche Grafenhäuser der Gegenwart: in heraldischer, historischer und genealogischer Beziehung. A - Z, Band 3, Ernst Heinrich Kneschke, Weigel, 1854.
Notable members
Petar Keglević II (ca. 1485 – ca. 1555) was captain and later ban of Jajce, from 1521 to 1522. In 1526, some months before the battle of Mohács, he got the jus gladii. However, he did not take part in the battle of Mohács (he arrived too late). From 1533 to 1537 he was the royal commissary for Croatia and Slavonia as attorney general. From 1537 to 1542 he was the Ban of Croatia and Slavonia. Juraj/György Keglević III (unknown – 1622) was Commander-in-chief, General, Vice-Ban of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia (14 April 1598 – 21 October 1599) and since 1602 Baron in Transylvania.Nikolaus von Preradovich Matthias II imprisoned him, but soon left him free again. At that time was the Principality of Transylvania a fully autonomous, but only semi-independent state under the nominal suzerainty of the Ottoman Empire, where it was the time of the Sultanate of Women. Petar Keglević V (1609–1665) was the adjoining Colonel at Nagykanizsa, when he became Vice-General in 1649.Petar Keglević V Petar Keglević VII (1660–1724) was the Commander-in-chief, General, Vice-Ban of Croatia, Slavonia and Dalmatia and since 1687 Count in Hungary. Nikola Keglević was since 1687 Count of Torna County in Kingdom of Hungary, now Slovakia.Frederik Federmayer: Rody starého Prešporka. Bratislava/Pressburg/Pozsony 2003Ján Lacika: Bratislava a okolie - turistický sprievodca. Vydavateľstvo Príroda, s.r.o., Bratislava 2004 Nicolaus Keglevich started Keglevich dynasty in Kingdom of Hungary. Sigismund Keglević was the Titular bishop of Mrkan between 1764 and 1805.T.E.: Keglevich Zsigmond, buzini, gr. (MKL) Aleksandar Keglević was in 1770 or 1771 rector of the University of Trnava,Ungarische Revue, Volume 11, S.53, Magyar Tudományos Akadémia, Franklin-Verein, 1891. it began the moving of the University into the Royal Palace Buda Castle with the permission of Maria Theresa of Austria, it was moved in 1777 to Buda and finally to Pest in 1784. Tereza Keglević, the Countess of Bratislava in Kingdom of Hungary (now Slovakia). She bought a Keglevich Palace from Joseph Duchoň in 1745 on 15 February, for 7 000 crowns.Jana Oršulová: Heraldické pamiatky Bratislavy. Albert Marenčin Vydavateľstvo PT, Bratislava 2007 Josip I Keglević was very liked by Emperor Peter III of Russia, who called him "Sir brother".1747, 1752 bis 1763, Johann Karl Christian Heinrich von Zinzendorf, Maria Breunlich, Böhlau Verlag Wien, 1998. His father, also called Josip, had been ambassador to Russia. He was curator of the tenant of the court theatre in Vienna (1773–1776) of Johann count Kohary, who had come into financial problems.Théâtre, nation & société en Allemagne au XVIIIe siècle, Roland Krebs, Jean Marie Valentin, Presses universitaires de Nancy, 1990. He was one of the two crown guards of the Holy Crown of Hungary (1772-1795).Europäische Aufklärung zwischen Wien und Triest: die Tagebücher des Gouverneurs Karl Graf von Zinzendorf, 1776-1782, S. 300, Karl Zinzendorf (Graf von), Grete Klingenstein, Eva Faber, Antonio Trampus, Böhlau Verlag, Wien 2009. He was the magister agazonum (Marshal) between 1794 and 1798. and also the Count of Torna County. Josip II Keglević was the secretary of the Vice-council, member of the Diet of Hungary ("Hungarian Parliament") and also, like his father, the protector of the Royal Crown. He had lived in Bratislava, in Keglevich Palace.
Franjo Keglević was the husband of the sister of the director of the court theater Hoftheater Burgtheater in Vienna Wenzel count Sporck and was chairman of the committee for financing the court theater Hoftheater Burgtheater in Vienna between 1773 and 1776.Alt und Neu Wien: Geschichte der österreichischen Kaiserstadt, Band 2, von Karl Eduard Schimmer, Horitz Bermann, Wien 1904, Seite 215 In 1809, he or another Franciscus Keglevich promised to the Emperor Francis a particular exchange rate between gold in natura and gold coins or silver coins, because he had got gold in natura 2 years before the bankruptcy of the state of Austria in 1811.Historia critica regum Hungariæ. [42 vols. in 41 pt. Vols. 7 and 21 were apparently omitted from the numeration in this edition]. page 438, István Katona, Buda 1817.The Life of Beethoven, page 110, David Wyn Jones, Cambridge University Press, 1998, Charles Keglevich became in 1773 director of the city theater Theater am Kärntnertor in Vienna.Katalog der Portrait-Sammlung der k.u.k. General-Intendanz der k.k. Hoftheater: zugleich ein biographisches Hilfsbuch auf dem Gebiet von Theater und Musik, Burgtheater, Wien 1892, A. W. Künast
Keglevich, today it is not known whether Alexander, Francis or Charles has financed a variety of expenses of Maria Theresa of Austria, which supposedly should have been returned by the theater fund.Briefe an ihre Kinder und Freunde; Verfasser/in: Maria Theresa, Empress of Austria; Alfred Ritter von Arneth, Verlag: Braumüller, Wien 1881.
Ana Luiza Barbara Keglević (1780-1813), also called Babette was the daughter of Karlo Keglević and Catherine Zichy. She was a student of Ludwig van Beethoven in Vienna and Bratislava, who dedicated to her his Piano Sonata No. 4 in E-flat major op. 7 and his Piano Concerto No. 1 in C major op. 15.Zweite Beethoveniana: Nachgelassene Aufsätze, Seite 512, Bibliothek der deutschen Literatur, Gustav Nottebohm, Verlag Peters, 1887.Ludwig van Beethoven's Leben, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, Hermann Deiters, Hugo Riemann, Verlag: Berlin, W. Weber, 1901-11. Katarina Patačić, born Keglević published a 'Croatian Songbook' in 1781 that featured lyric and melodramatic pieces with love songs to her husband and a fable of Aesop written in the Croatian Kaj dialect. She wrote for the court audience, but she did not use common versification. A number of minor poets and other writers continued to imitate her style of writing.Trois ecritures, trois langues: pierres gravées, manuscrits anciens et publications croates à travers les siècles, Josip Stipanov, Srećko Lipovčan, Zlatko Rebernjak, Bibliothèque royale de Belgique, Erasmus naklada, 2004. Nera Keglević became a fictional character in the most famous cycle of 7 novels Grička vještica (The Witch of Grič) by Marija Jurić Zagorka. The novels start with Nera's 17th birthday in 1775. She is fighting against believing in witches and witchcraft in this novels. But the problem in this novels is that the towns judge Krajačić is accusing Nera to be a witch for revenge. Finally she became the last accused witch in Legal history in Croatia.