Naslov
Matrimonial Arrangements in the Service of Prestige, Social and Political Connections, Public and Military Services and Material Wellbeing of Croatian Noble Families during Maria Theresias's Reign

Autori
Janković, Valentina

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, sažetak, znanstveni

Izvornik
King Maria Theresia - International Conference Dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of her Birth - Conference Abstracts / - Zagreb : Croatian State Archives ; Croatian Institutet of History ; Croatian History Museum, 2017, 26-26

Skup
King Maria Theresia - International Conference Dedicated to the 300th Anniversary of her Birth

Mjesto i datum
Zagreb, Hrvatska, 10.04.2017. - 11.04.2017

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Maria Theresia, Croatian Noble Families, Matrimonial Arrangements, Social and Political Connections, Public and Military Services

Sažetak
This paper discusses the social and political importance of favourable familial arrangements and connections in the service of Queen Maria Theresia and her State with its administrative and military bodies. The topic will be elaborated by using the example of the marital strategy of Suzana Malatinszky, one of several sisters born in a noble family of humble descent. Her favourable marriages, first with the count and general Ivan Kazimir Drašković and especially the second one with the Croatian ban Ferenc Nádasdy, enabled her to improve her family's prosperity and position in the society, as well as to arrange advantageous marriages for her younger sisters. These marriages, and the family connections thus created between the noble families of Nádasdy, Drašković, and Vojkffy, affected especially the spousese of these women (some positively and others rather negatively) regarding their prestige, social status, and chances in public and military service. The paper is based on eighteenth-century sources related to the Vojkffy family. It also uses Baltazar Adam Krčelić's view of the everyday life of nobility in Civil Croatia in the mid-eighteenth century as described in his Annuae, as well as modern scholarship on the Early Modern European and Croatian nobility.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
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