Petar Keglević II of

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(died in 1554 or 1555) was the ban of

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and

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from 1537 to 1542.

Career

Keglević was captain from 1521 to 1522 and later ban of

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. In 1526, some months before the

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, he got the ''

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'', even though he did not take part in the battle (he arrived too late). In (1525 - 1526) he becomes one of the captains and chief officers of the royal

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. From 25 May 1533 to 9 December 1537, he was the royal

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for Croatia and Slavonia as

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. From 1537 to 1542, he was the ban of Croatia and Slavonia. The

was very traumatic. The history of the persons who were relevant after that - among them also Petar Keglević - is described again and again. A part of

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is still named after him. He distinguished himself in battles against the

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and he achieved a special agreement. After the battle of Mohács, he sided with Emperor Ferdinand against

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. Zápolya had made a

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. Petar Keglević made a special agreement with the

. The result was a

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and as an

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moved

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from

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(see also: Ottoman–Venetian War ). This architecture of

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should be kept for centuries. He increased his family's holdings through purchases ( Kostel and

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) and royal gifts (Bijela Stijena near

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, Lobor, Novigrad (the permission to build ''novi grad'', i.e. "new towns"),

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, Perbál,

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and

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). After the death of Keglević's son-in-law Caspar Ernuszt, he assumed ownership of his possessions in Međimurje and stayed in fortified

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but was later forced by

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to leave it. In 1542, he was sentenced as an

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by the

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, because of his special agreement with the

and because of the unlawful ownership of Međimurje. Emperor Ferdinand removed him from his position as ban and confiscated his properties in 1542 (see also: Little War in Hungary (1543)). One of the sons of Petar Keglević moved to

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(see: Conflicts with the Ottoman Empire) and

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became Commander of the Imperial Squires and later

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. Emperor Ferdinand imprisoned Keglević in 1546 in

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in one of his own houses of his own choice. In 1548 he was granted an amnesty and was returned all of his goods along with his grandfather's Bužim. In the year 1552 Emperor Ferdinand visited him as a private person and brought him news from Valladolid. He was not involved in the dynastic fight between the

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and the

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, although he made the business with

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, so that this one pulled back from Hungary and Croatia. Petar Keglević was married to Barbara Strezsemley from Streza (today Pavlin Kloštar near

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), from family Bissenus de Streza. Streza''Zaslužni i znamenti Hrvati 925-1925.'', Emilije Laszowski, Zagreb 1925. was the uncle of king Dmitar Zvonimir. Streza descended from Bissenus '' de genere'' Aba, who was a descendant of the Hungarian king Samuel Aba, a grandson of

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. Count Péter VII Keglevich is his descendant. He died in 1554 or 1555.

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Career

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