Emerik Derenčin ( hu, Imre Derencsényi, hr, Mirko Derenčin) was a Hungarian-Croatian nobleman remembered as the commander of the Croatian troops in the 1493

Battle of Krbava Field The Battle of Krbava Field ( hr, Bitka na Krbavskom polju, Krbavska bitka; hu, Korbávmezei csata; tr, Krbava Muharebesi) was fought between the Ottoman Empire of Bayezid II and an army of the Kingdom of Croatia, at the time in personal unio ...

. He was a member of the Derencsényi family from the kindred of Balog. Prior to becoming the ban, Derenčin was the military captain of

Senj Senj (; it, Segna, la, Senia, Hungarian and german: Zengg) is a town on the upper Adriatic coast in Croatia, in the foothills of the Mala Kapela and Velebit mountains. The symbol of the town is the Nehaj Fortress ( hr, Tvrđava Nehaj) whic ...

, and the ban of Jajce.

Vjekoslav Klaić Vjekoslav Klaić (21 June 1849 – 1 July 1928) was a Croatian historian and writer, most famous for his monumental work ''History of the Croats''. Klaić was born in Garčin near Slavonski Brod as the son of a teacher. He was raised in German ...

, ''Povijest Hrvata: I Treće doba'', Book 1. Zagreb: Tisak i naklada knjižare L. Hartmana, 1904, p. 192. Derencsényi and John Both were named the

Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia 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 Ban (title), bans as a ruler's representative ...

and Ban of Slavonia in 1493. In the

, the Croats under Derenčin suffered a devastating loss, and Derenčin himself was taken captive and killed.

Family

Derencsényi married Orsolya Zápolya, sister of

Stephen Zápolya Stephen Zápolya ( hu, Szapolyai István; died on 23 December 1499), was Palatine of Hungary, Palatine of the Kingdom of Hungary between 1492 and 1499. He married Polish princess Hedwig of Cieszyn on 11 August 1483 (his second marriage), by whom ...

, the

Palatine of Hungary The Palatine of Hungary ( hu, nádor or , german: Landespalatin, la, palatinus regni Hungariae) was the highest-ranking office in the Kingdom of Hungary from the beginning of the 11th century to 1848. Initially, Palatines were repres ...

. They had two sons and, probably, a daughter.Markó, László: A magyar állam főméltóságai Szent Istvántól napjainkig – Életrajzi Lexikon ''pp. 445-446.'' ''(The High Officers of the Hungarian State from Saint Stephen to the Present Days – A Biographical Encyclopedia)'' (2nd edition); Helikon Kiadó Kft., 2006, Budapest; .

References

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