John of Palisna ( hr, Ivan od Paližne, la, Joannes de Palisna) (? – 23 March 1391) was a Croatian knight and warrior, prior of Vrana, and

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Prior of Vrana

It is unclear when John of Palisna became prior of Vrana.Hunyadi and Laszlovszky (2001), pp. 285–290. In May 1381 he was already prior, because the citizens of

Zadar Zadar ( , ; historically known as Zara (from Venetian and Italian: ); see also other names), is the oldest continuously inhabited Croatian city. It is situated on the Adriatic Sea, at the northwestern part of Ravni Kotari region. Zadar serv ...

were complaining about him to the King of Hungary and Croatia. He co-ruled with relative Ivan (John) Anjou Horvat de Radics as a Ban of Croatia from 1385 to 1386, and in 1389. In 1389, groups of crusaders linked to the

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under a ''Domine Johanne Bano'' are mentioned as fighting in the

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in Annales Forolivienses. ''Domine Johanne Bano'' most probably refers to John of Palisna, although identification with a

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has also been proposed. In the same year, John lost one of his last strongholds in Croatia, the

Klis Fortress ) from Vrana, Zadar County, Vrana, in the name of Bosnia (region), Bosnian King Tvrtko I of Bosnia, Tvrtko I * 1394–1401 Ban Nicholas II Garay, Nikola II Gorjanski in the name of Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, Sigismund * 1401–1434 Croatian n ...

. Without the help from the Kingdom of Bosnia, John was unable to resist Sigismund's allies, especially when he personally went away, to fight against the Ottomans. H. Gračanin, Ivan paližna u povijesnim vrelima i historiografiji, 2011. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/114280 pp. 240-247

Plot against Elizabeth

John of Palisna opposed the rule of

Elizabeth of Bosnia Elizabeth of Bosnia ( sh-Latn-Cyrl, separator=/, Elizabeta Kotromanić, Елизабета Котроманић; hu, Kotromanics Erzsébet; pl, Elżbieta Bośniaczka; – January 1387) was queen consort of Hungary and Croatia, as well ...

.Fine (The Late Medieval Balkans – 1994), p. 395. He was mainly opposed to the centralizing policy which Elizabeth's husband had enforced. He hoped to regain local independence by rising against Elizabeth. Elizabeth's own first cousin, King Tvrtko, with whom she was raised, decided to take advantage of Louis' death and Elizabeth's unpopularity by trying to recover the

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n lands he had lost to Louis in 1357. John of Palisna asked Tvrtko for help but was ultimately defeated by Elizabeth's army and forced to flee to Bosnia.

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