Ferenc Frangepán

Franjo Frankopan Slunjski (, ; 1536 – 2 December 1572) was a Croatian nobleman from the branched Frankopan family in the 16th century. From 1567 until his death he served as Ban (Viceroy) of Croatia and was one of the most prominent figures of the fight against the Ottoman Turks and their expansion. Having been the last male descendant of the Slunj branch of the Frankopan family, he was called "the Sword and Shield of the Remnants of Illyria". Biography Ancestry and family Prince Franjo Frankopan Slunjski was born in Slunj in 1536 as the son of knez (prince) Juraj (George) III Frankopan Slunjski and his wife Ana Frankopan née Babonić Blagajski. His grandfather was Mihovil I Frankopan Slunjski (fl. 1487–1514) and great-grandfather Dujam IV Frankopan (*? – †1487), who inherited Slunj estate at the partition of huge estates of Nikola IV Frankopan, once mighty Ban (Viceroy) of Croatia, that occurred on 12 June 1449 in Tržan Castle in Modruš. He had two sisters, Katarina (1520–1580) and Ana (1525–1577), who were married to Hungarian noblemen Imre Czobor de Czoborszentmihály and Miklós Oláh-Császár de Lánzsér, respectively. His father is known for organizing and hosting the assembly of the Croatian Parliament in the Cetin Castle by the end of 1526, where Ferdinand I of Habsburg, the Archduke of Austria, was elected King of Croatia. Several months before Ferdinand's election, Matija II Frankopan Slunjski, his father's brother, was killed in the Battle of Mohács in southern Hungary. Early life At the age of seventeen, he inherited his father Juraj, who died in 1553 and was buried most probably in the Church of the Holy Trinity in Slunj. He became the owner of castles of Slunj, Cetingrad, Mala and Velika Kladuša, Krstinja, Kremen, Ledenice and some others. Most of his possessions were in the immediate vicinity of the Sanjak of Bosnia and were under constant and serious Ottoman threat. He was forced to use all the income from his estates to strengthen his castles and their guards.