Nicholas Szécsi de Felsőlendva (''Széchy; '' hu, Miklós Szécsi; ''c.'' 1320 – ''c.'' June or July 1387) was a Hungarian nobleman from the influential House of Szécsi. Son of Peter, Count of

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, and Sebe Debrői. He married Margaret of

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, they had four children. He was sent to Poland by King Louis I in 1345, when the Czechs laid siege to

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. Between 1346 and 1349, he served as the

ban of Croatia Ban of Croatia ( hr, Hrvatski ban) was the title of local rulers or office holders and after 1102, viceroys of Croatia. From the earliest periods of the Croatian state, some provinces were ruled by bans as a ruler's representative (viceroy) an ...

. He took part in the King's second Neapolitan campaign, as well as in the unsuccessful 1352 campaign against the Lithuanian pagans, where he himself was wounded. Upon his return in 1354, he was made supreme count of Krassó. Between 1358 and 1366 he served as ban of Croatia again, after which he served as the

ban of Slavonia Ban of Slavonia ( hr, Slavonski ban; hu, szlavón bán; la, Sclavoniæ banus) or the Ban of "Whole Slavonia" ( hr, ban cijele Slavonije; hu, egész Szlavónia bánja; la, totius Sclavoniæ banus) was the title of the governor of a territor ...

between 1366 and 1368. Szécsi followed the King to

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in 1370. He was named the ban of Croatia again between 1377 and 1380. He was also the ''

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'' of Vas and of

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between 1381 and 1382. He served as

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three times and finished his career as

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during the reign of Louis I's daughter

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Sources

* Engel, Pál (1996). ''Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I.'' ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. Budapest. . * Markó, László: A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig – Életrajzi Lexikon ''p. 253.'' ''(The High Officers of the Hungarian State from Saint Stephen to the Present Days – A Biographical Encyclopedia)'' (2nd edition); Helikon Kiadó Kft., 2006, Budapest; . 1320 births 1387 deaths Hungarian nobility Palatines of Hungary Judges royal Bans of Croatia Nicholas 1 Bans of Slavonia 14th-century Hungarian people Bans of Severin Masters of the stewards {{Hungary-hist-stub