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European Commission 8 Store Y's Gate , W Estminister SW 1P 3 a T Saaneckh People from Elsewhere - through myths, second wife to be drowned. However, owing to the accidental legends and sagas ...does history write stories, or do stories deaths of Herman’s three other sons, he was constrained to free create history...? Friderik and gradually groom him as his successor, even though Matija Plevnik, BA (Art History), conservator the insult was never forgotten. On 9th November 2006, exactly 550 years passed since the last of All the family twists and turns notwithstanding, the House of Celje the Celje (Cilli) princes, Ulrik II, fell under the sword as a victim of was not content merely with the title of counts, so they aimed higher, SW 1P 3 AT a plot. This act marked the collapse of the last great dynasty that to the title of state princes. The way was cleared for them to become 10 am to 6 PM had its family seat on Slovenian soil and was involved at the highest princes through the gesture of the Habsburg Ernest the Iron, level in European politics. The history of the House of Celje has all who in 1423, on the initiative of Emperor Sigismund relinquished the elements that are necessary for a high-quality screenplay: the his power over the House of Celje. The actual elevation to state European Commission rise, splendour, glory, incessant action, intrigues and plots, ill-fated princes took place in 1436, a year after the death of Herman II. As to Friday Open Monday love and a tragic ending. It therefore comes as no surprise that the princes, Friderik II and Ulrik II held the right to mint money, exploit history of this famous family has attracted and continues to attract mineral ores and hold a court of the nobility. They became equals 8 Storey’s Gate, Westminister Gate, 8 Storey’s artists from various fi elds. to the Habsburgs, with whom they concluded a mutual inheritance The origin of this noble family is unknown. In the light of the fi rst contract (1443). In 1430, with a grand and extravagant escort, Ulrik documented mention around 1130, we may conclude that they II embarked on a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela, one of came from the ranks of the free nobles. It is suspected that they the three main pilgrimage sites of Christianity. It is evident that this were a side branch of the high Bavarian nobility. Their allodial journey was also of great political signifi cance from the chronicles property (inherited estates free of obligations) was contiguous of the Castilian kings, which reported on this visit. In 1451 Friderik II and close-knit. granted Celje town rights. They further increased their power through marriages with The House of Celje strived for power in individual provinces with important noble houses. At the beginning of the 14th century increasing vigour. In the Kingdom of Hungary they were state they became vassals of the Habsburgs, and this merely barons, and they were Croatian, Slavonian and Dalmatian bans enhanced their position as they had a strong mercenary army (dukes), which meant that they ended up entangled in local confl icts that ensured a substantial and stable income. Herman I Celjski in numerous places. This interfering produced a wave of resistance married Katarina, the daughter of the Ban of Bosnia Stjepan II among the ‘domestic’ nobility, which ultimately led to the plot of Kotromani. On the other hand Viljem Celjski married Ana, the the Hunyadis and consequently to the death of Ulrik II in 1456 in daughter of the Polish King Kazimir the Great. These marriages Belgrade. With the death of the Prince of Celje began the battle for further consolidated the political position of the House of Celje. the colossal inheritance. The following players were in contention: In 1372 Charles IV of Luxembourg, fi nally with the assent of the Katarina (Ulrik’s wife), the Gorica counts, Ladislaus Posthumous Habsburgs, elevated them (once more) to the position of state (King of Hungary) and the Habsburg Friedrich III. On the basis of Counts of Celje. the valid inheritance contract, it was Friedrich who took over the After 1385 the reign of the family was taken over by Herman entire Celje possessions. II Celjski, whose far-reaching and adept policies placed the Alongside their political importance, the Celje Counts were also Celje Counts alongside the European ruling families. Of great important for fi ne art. Paralleling the rise to the peak of their power, importance in his half-century rule was the Battle of Nicopolis in they enhanced their standing as patrons in the fi eld of the arts. 1396, where he saved the life of the Hungarian King Sigismund, Indeed, fi ne art is the fi nal remnant testifying to the greatness of the the future Czech and German king and Holy Roman Emperor. Celje dynasty. The signs of their might were left in heraldic form on Through this act he became the Emperor’s adviser, confi dant, numerous sacral objects. ambassador and member of the elite Order of the Dragon. As a Exceptionally important is the Chapel of Our Lady of Sorrows in reward, the Counts of Celje were able to expand their territories the Church of St. Daniel. All of its high-quality individual elements in Slovenia, Slavonia and Croatia. The mutual affection between are harmonised into a wonderful artistic whole that comprises the the King and Herman was so deep that in 1406 Herman gave private chapel of the House of Celje. From the secular buildings, his daughter Barbara’s hand in marriage to Sigismund. Barbara ambition, grandeur and haughtiness are clearly indicated by the Celjska was of great historical importance. This highly educated Prince’s Palace. With its pointed arch windows, which were a woman of religious tolerance, was one of the fi rst women great rarity on secular buildings, the cross-ribbed vaulted private scientists (astrology and alchemy), and as such represented a chapel and the deliberately installed, fully sculptural female fi gure model of a Renaissance person. Since the territory in today’s from antiquity in the medieval walls, a spirit of humanism and the Croatia was becoming increasingly important, Herman II married Renaissance prevailed over the late Gothic tone of the space. These off his son Friderik II to Elizabeta Frankopanska in 1405. two phenomena were probably a consequence of the penitential Following the death of his fi rst wife (supposedly dispatched by pilgrimage Friderik II made to Rome, and on the way there he Friderik himself), Friderik II married Veronika Deseni�ka - the probably became acquainted with the new cultural orientations –the daughter of a petty and insignifi cant Zagorje noble - without his Renaissance and Humanism. father’s consent. Herman II imprisoned his son and ordered his imaginary architecture. And power and self-confi dence. 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