John of Palisna (, ) (? – 23 March 1391) was a Croatian knight and warrior, prior of Vrana, and

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Prior of Vrana

It is unclear when John of Palisna became prior of Vrana.Hunyadi and Laszlovszky (2001), pp. 285–290. In May 1381 he was already prior, because the citizens of

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were complaining about him to the King of Hungary and Croatia. He co-ruled with relative Ivan (John) Anjou Horvat de Radics as a Ban of Croatia from 1385 to 1386, and in 1389. In 1389, groups of crusaders linked to the

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under a ''Domine Johanne Bano'' are mentioned as fighting in the

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in Annales Forolivienses. ''Domine Johanne Bano'' most probably refers to John of Palisna, although identification with a

John Horvat John Horvat (; ; died 15 August 1394) was a Croato– Hungarian nobleman in the Kingdom of Hungary-Croatia who served as Ban of Macsó from 1376 to 1381, and again between 1385 and 1386. Horvat was the brother of Ladislaus and Paul, Bisho ...

has also been proposed. In the same year, John lost one of his last strongholds in Croatia, the

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. Without the help from the Kingdom of Bosnia, John was unable to resist Sigismund's allies, especially when he personally went away, to fight against the Ottomans. H. Gračanin, Ivan paližna u povijesnim vrelima i historiografiji, 2011. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/114280 pp. 240-247

Plot against Elizabeth

John of Palisna opposed the rule of

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.Fine (The Late Medieval Balkans – 1994), p. 395. He was mainly opposed to the centralizing policy which Elizabeth's husband had enforced. He hoped to regain local independence by rising against Elizabeth. Elizabeth's own first cousin, King Tvrtko, with whom she was raised, decided to take advantage of Louis' death and Elizabeth's unpopularity by trying to recover the

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n lands he had lost to Louis in 1357. John of Palisna asked Tvrtko for help but was ultimately defeated by Elizabeth's army and forced to flee to Bosnia.

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