Blagaj family
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The Blagaj family or Blagay were a Croatian noble family, hereditary counts that were a cadet branch of the medieval Babonić family, and named after their estate of Blagaj on the Sana in the 14th cent
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Polhov Gradec Castle, country residence of Counts Ursini von Blagay
Detail of Ursini von Blagay palace, Town Square (Ljubljana)
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
Blagaj family
…II in 1571, the family continued to make these claims and would refer to themselves as Ursini von Blagay. Stjepan IX Blagajski participated in the 1527 election in Cetin that brought Ferdinand I of Habsburg to the Croatian throne. Around 1540, the Ottoman Empire had conquered Blagaj on the Sana, so the family relocated…
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.