1527 election in Cetin
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The 1527 election in Cetin was an assembly of the Croatian Parliament in the Cetin Castle in 1527. It followed a succession crisis in the Kingdom of Hungary caused by the death of Louis II, and which
Croatian high nobility members (right) and the plenipotentiaries of Ferdinand I Habsburg (left) at the Parliament on Cetin, by Dragutin Weingärtner
The charter from Cetingrad is preserved in the National Archives of Austria in Vienna.
Ferdinand I was Holy Roman Emperor from 1556, King of Bohemia, Hungary, and Croatia from 1526, and Archduke of Austria from 1521 until his death in 1564. Before his accession as emperor, he ruled the
1527 election in Cetin
…death of Louis II, and which resulted in the Kingdom of Croatia joining the Habsburg monarchy. The charter electing the Habsburg Archduke of Austria Ferdinand I as King of Croatia was confirmed with the seals of six Croatian nobles. Faced with the overwhelming force of the Ottoman Empire, the nobility of the…
Portrait by Hans Bocksberger der Ältere, c. 1500s
Ferdinand as a young boy
King Ferdinand I of Hungary (Nádasdy Mausoleum, 1664)
Ottoman siege of Eger Castle in 1552