Royalty of Croatia

[Mashka]

Has anyone heard of the Croatian royalty. I'm Croatian. I know of King Tomislav and Queen Jelena, and I know that they died out in the middle ages. DOes anyone have any info on them at all?

[Ianna]

Originally Posted by Mashka

Has anyone heard of the Croatian royalty. I'm Croatian. I know of King Tomislav and Queen Jelena, and I know that they died out in the middle ages. DOes anyone have any info on them at all?

Bok Mashka! I'm from Croatia.

I'll provide you the link to the site called; Hrvatski Plemićki Savez;
http://skola.sys.hr/plemstvo/

It is organization of Croatian noble families. It has very useful information, and also list of all noble families and their webpages. If you know Croatian, there should be no problem.:)

Pozdrav!

[Benjamin]

Aimone, Duke of Aosta and his wife were King Tomislav II and Queen Irene of Croatia from 1941-1943. They never actually visited their "kingdom", however.

[Kotroman]

Croatia has many princes and princess. Otto, head of the House of Habsburg, claims the title of King of Croatia and his wife Regina claims the title of Queen of Croatia. In fact, all the living members of the House of Habsburg claim the title of Prince of Croatia - including The Archduchess of Austria-Este, daughter of The King of the Belgians.

I'd love to see Croatia electing a member of the House of Habsburg (preferably one of Otto's descendants) as King/Queen of Croatia, though expecting that could be a bit unrealistic. Monarchy under the Habsburgs would benefit Croatia in so many ways - it would calm the political situation, as the head of state would no longer be associated with politics, and tourism would bloom, and Croatia would become politically much closer to Europe as a kingdom headed by a Habsburg.

[CPKatarina]

here is the link to Wiki on Kings of Croatia.

List of rulers of Croatia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[Karposh]

Originally Posted by Benjamin

Aimone, Duke of Aosta and his wife were King Tomislav II and Queen Irene of Croatia from 1941-1943. They never actually visited their "kingdom", however.

Yes, that's true. However, according to Giulio Vignoli's book The sovrano sconosciutto he had an office for Croatian affairs in Florence and later in Rome.

It is interesting that his former counsellor, Count Gyula Cseszneky, a Hungarian-Croatian nobleman in Italian service later was proclaimed Grand Voivode (Grand Duke) of Macedonia and actually reigned between August-September 1943 in a very limited area of South-Western Macedonia.

Another interesting fact is, that the current Duke of Aosta, . i.e. King Tomislav's son, bears the given name Zvonimir which must have been given to him in honor of King Zvonimir of Croatia. The Duke of Aosta is considered by some Croatian monarchist a rival pretender to Archduke Otto, and is sytled as Zvonimir II, titular king of Croatia.

[King of Croatia]

Karl I was the last king of Croatia his reign ended November, 1918. The little boy in the picture is
the Crown Prince of Croatia Otto von Habsburg born 1912.

His grandson Ferdinand Zvonimir Habsburg was christened on 20 September 1997 in Zagreb cathedral
by Cardinal Franjo Kuharić. Zvonimir was the king of Croatia from 1075 to 1089

In 1925 the Croatians celebrated one thousand years of the Croatian kingdom (925 - 1925)



The Croatian coat of arms, the symbol of Croatia
a checkerboard with a crown 1495 and 1991



Curtain in the Croatian National Theatre

[ortiz]

Video featuring wedding and studio photos of King Tomislav II of Croatia and his family

YouTube - ‪King Tomislav II of Croatia‬‏