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The House of Pogledić (Prigledić) is a Croatian
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from
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, Croatia. Its traditional seat is Kurilovec (a present-day part of the city of
Velika Gorica Velika Gorica () is the largest and most populous city in Zagreb County, Croatia. According to the 2011 census, the city itself has a population of 31,341, and the municipality has a population of 63,517 inhabitants. Velika Gorica is the centre ...
). The family is noted in records dating to the 15th century and they received the status of nobility from
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in 1560.


Notable family members

The House of Pogledić includes the following members: * Franjo, served as a
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of
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Petar Zrinski Petar IV Zrinski () (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 Magnate conspiracy to ...
in 1648–1653 * Juraj, took part in the 1740–1748
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as a company commander, and commanded a regiment stationed in the Kostajnica Fortress in 1750; Reached the rank of a
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in 1771 * Franjo, elected representative of the Turopolje district to the
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in 1861; He was an archivist in the Archive of Croatia-Slavonia-Dalmatia in
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1871–1882; He researched the history of Turopolje and nobility of Turopolje, and wrote books on the topics: ''Istina i nedvojna vlastitost plemenite obćine Turovoga Polja, razložena po jednom bratu iste obćine'' in 1850, and ''Imovina i život plemićah kotara turopoljskoga'' in 1877 * Dragutin, a proponent of the Croatian national revival, i.e. the
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. In 1848–1849, he was the commissioner of the Ban of Croatia
Josip Jelačić Count Josip Jelačić von Bužim (16 October 180120 May 1859; also spelled ''Jellachich'', ''Jellačić'' or ''Jellasics''; ; ) was a Croatian lieutenant field marshal in the Imperial Austrian Army and politician. He was the Ban of Croatia betw ...
for the city of
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and the
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. He was the deputy ''comes'' (head) of the
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in 1850–1851 and the deputy ''comes'' of the
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in 1854–1861. In 1861–1871, he held administrative positions in the government of Croatia-Slavonia, and the position of ''comes'' of the Zagreb County in 1871–1873 and 1875–1881. * Cecilija, wife of Count
Janko Drašković Janko Drašković (Hungarian language, Hungarian: ''Draskovich János''; 20 October 1770 – 14 January 1856) was a Kingdom of Croatia (Habsburg), Croatian politician who is associated with the beginnings of the Illyrian movement, a 19th-centur ...
, a prominent figure of the Illyrian movement, from 1794 to her death in 1808


See also

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List of noble families of Croatia List of noble families of Croatia includes the old, original, ethnically Croatian noble families; families whose titles were granted by the kings of the medieval Kingdom of Croatia (medieval), Kingdom of Croatia and its successors; foreign noble f ...


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* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:House of Pogledić Pogledic Pogledic Families of the Habsburg monarchy