Miklós Zrínyi was a Croatian and Hungarian military leader, statesman and poet. He was a member of the House of Zrinski, a Croatian-Hungarian noble family. He is the author of the first epic poem, The Peril of Sziget, in Hungarian literature.
Portrait of Nikola Zrinski by Jan Thomas van Ieperen, Lobkowicz Palace, Prague.
Nikola Zrinski monument in Zrinski Park in Čakovec, Croatia
Contemporary drawing showing Nikola Zrinski in battle against Ottomans.
Engraving of Zrinski
The House of Zrinski or Zrínyi was a Croatian-Hungarian noble family, a cadet branch of the Croatian noble tribe of Šubić, influential during the period in history marked by the Ottoman wars in Europe in the Kingdom of Croatia's union with the Kingdom of Hungary and in the later Kingdom of Croatia as a part of the Habsburg monarchy. Notable members of this family were Bans of Croatia, considered national heroes in both Croatia and Hungary, and were particularly celebrated during the period of Romanticism, a movement which was called Zrinijada in Croatia.
Zrinski family
Ruins of Zrin Castle, Croatia.
Portrait of Nikola IV Zrinski by Oton Iveković.
Zrin Castle, once a seat of the family on mainland