Juraj V Zrinski ( hu, V. Zrínyi György; 31 January 1599 – 28 December 1626) was a

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ian Ban (viceroy), warrior and member of the

Zrinski Zrinski () 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 Hung ...

noble family.

Biography

Juraj V Zrinski was born in Csáktornya

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(today

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, a town in the

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, the northernmost county of

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). He was the grandson of one of the greatest Croatian Ban,

Nikola IV Zrinski Nikola IV Zrinski or Miklós IV Zrínyi ( hu, Zrínyi Miklós, ; 1507/1508 – 7 September 1566), also commonly known as Nikola Šubić Zrinski (), was a Croatian nobleman and general, Ban of Croatia from 1542 until 1556, royal master of the tr ...

, who died in the tragic and heroic

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( hr, Sigetska bitka), at a town in the western Hungary where the Ottoman invasion to

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had been stopped. He was the son of Count Juraj IV Zrinski,

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in the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia, and Countess Sofija Zrinski née Stubenberg. Educated in

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, he later turned to

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and "purified" his estates from

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. On 15 November 1622 Zrinski was appointed

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. At that time, he was widely recognized as a brave and courageous warrior. He fought the

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in many battles. His wife Magdalena née Széchy bore him two children: Nikola Zrinski and

Petar Zrinski Petar IV Zrinski ( hu, Zrínyi Péter) (6 June 1621 – 30 April 1671) was Ban of Croatia (Viceroy) from 1665 to 1670, general and a writer. A member of the Zrinski noble family, he was noted for his role in the attempted Croatian-Hungarian Mag ...

, who both later became distinguished Croatian bans and died a violent death. Juraj Zrinski died in a military camp near Pressburg, during the

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. His chivalry and rapier-tonguedness were, unfortunately, a thorn in his superior's, general

Albrecht von Wallenstein Albrecht Wenzel Eusebius von Wallenstein () (24 September 1583 – 25 February 1634), also von Waldstein ( cs, Albrecht Václav Eusebius z Valdštejna), was a Bohemian military leader and statesman who fought on the Catholic side during the Th ...

's, side and von Wallenstein had Zrinski poisoned after a verbal duel in 1626. At age 27 the ban was buried in Pauline monastery of Sveta Jelena (''St. Helen'' in English) near Čakovec, next to the graves of his ancestors.

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