Katarina Zrinska, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Croatian writer
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Place of Birth: Bosiljevo, Karlovac County, Croatia
About Katarina Zrinska
- Countess Ana Katarina Zrinska (c.
- 1625 – 1673) was a Croatian noblewoman and poet, born into the House of Frankopan noble family.
- She married Count Petar Zrinski of the House of Zrinski in 1641 and later became known as Katarina Zrinska.
- She is remembered in Croatia as a patron of the arts, a writer and patriot.
- She died in obscurity in a monastery in Graz following the downfall of the Zrinski-Frankopan conspiracy in 1671 and the execution of her husband Petar Zrinski. Katarina Zrinski and the conspiracy were largely forgotten until the 1860s, when Croatian politician Ante Starcevic began a campaign to rehabilitate the Zrinski and Frankopan nobility, and the story of her life and death was widely popularised following the publishing of Eugen Kumicic's historical novel Urota Zrinsko-Frankopanska (English: The Zrinski-Frankopan Conspiracy) in 1893.
- In the early 20th century, and especially after World War I, numerous Croatian women's associations were founded bearing her name.
- In 1999 the Croatian National Bank issued a silver commemorative coin depicting Katarina Zrinski, in their Znamenite Hrvatice (English: Famous Croatian Women) series, along with children's writer Ivana Brlic-Mažuranic and painter Slava Raškaj.
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