House of Šubić

Šubić ( to German schools Bitsch ) is the name of an ancient Croatian tribe, originally from the regions Ravni kotari and Bukovica in the Dalmatian hinterland, and its tribal leaders, known as nobiles, comites or principes Breberienses ( Prince of Bribir, Croatian Knezovi Bribirski, in some sources Subich de Berberio ), a prominent role in Croatian history played.

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The seat of the noble family was Bribir, now a village in the Šibenik-Knin County, near the town of Skradin, which was founded in the ancient Illyrian times, and developed as Varvaria, a Roman municipium. The Croats settled in the ruins of the municipium in the 7th century and named it Bribir.

The oldest known members of the noble family were Gespane (Croatian Zupan Latin iupanus ) by the then County Bribir in the 11th century, during the time of the Croatian King Petar Krešimir IV ( 1058-1074 ).

As the pacta conventa agreement that governed relations between the Croatian nobility King of Hungary, was closed in 1102, Mrmonja Šubić was also there. He was the representative of his race or tribe, one of the twelve Croatian tribes who had the privilege to choose a king.

Reached its climax in the noble family in the 13th and 14th century, when its members were the most important and most powerful Croatian noble and the title of Bane ( viceroys ) of Croatia wore. On the high plateau Bribirska glavica, an ideal place from which one could have control of the surrounding territory, they built their palace, the unique center of the former Croatian state.

As a powerful and influential person in the history of Šubić ever imagined Paul I drew from. He was Ban of Croatia (1273-1312) and Lord of Bosnia and Zahumlje ( 1299-1312 ). His son Mladen II managed to keep the rule of his family until 1322 to the same extent, but has since lost the noble family of power and wealth over again. The last prince of Bribir, James II, a member of a collateral branch of the noble family was and served as Vizeban of Croatia, died 1456.

Only later, a branch of the noble family Zrinski Šubić called again managed to reach the blaze of glory in the 16th and 17th centuries.

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Over the centuries, the members of the noble family (except Bane of Croatia) many military, church and governmental functions exercised; they were Vizebane, Gespane, podestas ( in the Dalmatian coastal cities ), Chamberlain to Croatian kings, bishops, famous generals, etc. They had many large estates ( gentlemen ), towns, castles, manors and palaces throughout the former southern Croatia.

The most significant members of the noble family

• Paul I (* 1245 - † 1312), Ban ( viceroy ) of Croatia ( 1273-1312 ) and Lord of Bosnia and Zahumlje ( 1299-1312 )
• Mladen I. (* - † 1304), Paul's brother, Ban of Bosnia ( 1299-1304 )
• Mladen II ( c. * 1270 - † 1343 ), Paul ( eldest ) son, Ban of Croatia ( 1312-1322 ) and Ban of Bosnia ( 1304-1322 )
• George II ( c. * 1275 - † 1330), Paul's son, Prince of Split ( 1300-1330 )
• Mladen III. ( c. * 1315 - † 1348 ), son of George, Prince of Klis ( 1330-1348 )
• Helena ( c. * 1306 - † 1378 ), George's daughter, princess, mother of Bosnian King Tvrtko I.
• James II (* - † 1456 ). , Great- grandnephew of Mladen III, Vizeban of Croatia ( 1411 )