House of Babonić

House of Babonić
Country	Kingdom of Croatia Kingdom of Hungary
Titles	Ban, Count
Founded	12th century
Current head	Extinct
Cadet branches	Counts of Blagaj

The House of Babonić (Hungarian: Babonics or Vodicsai) was a noble family from medieval Slavonia whose most notable members were Bans (viceroys) of Slavonia and Croatia. Their rise began at the turn of the 12th and 13th centuries when they received enormous estates from the Kings of Hungary.^[1][2][3] They were related to the Counts of Gorizia, the Venetian Morosini family and the Bosnian Kotromanić through intermarriages.^[1]

Notable members

Below is the complete family tree based on Hungarian historian Pál Engel's Medieval Hungarian Genealogy (2001)^[4] and Attila Zsoldos' archontology (2011):

• Stephen I
• Babonega I
  • Stephen II (fl. 1243–1256), Ban of Primorje (banus maritimus) (1243–1249)
    • Stephen III (fl. 1273–1300), Ban of Slavonia (in or before 1295), Krajna branch
      • Ladislaus I (fl. 1293)
      • Stephen V (fl. 1293)
        • Henry (fl. 1345)
        • Stephen VI (fl. 1345)
    • Radoslav I (fl. 1273–1293), Ban of Slavonia (1288, 1292, 1294)
  • Babonega II (fl. 1249–1256)
    • Nicholas I (fl. 1278–1292)
    • Stephen IV (fl. 1278–1316), Ban of Slavonia (1299; 1310–1316), Krupa branch
      • George (fl. 1321–1336)
      • John II (fl. 1321–1328)
      • Denis (fl. 1321–1370)
      • Paul (fl. 1321–1381), died without heirs
    • John I (fl. 1284–1334), Ban of Slavonia (1317–1322), Ban of Croatia and Dalmatia (1322)
      • a daughter (fl. 1328), married Peter II Kőszegi, the ancestor of the Herceg de Szekcső family
    • Otto (fl. 1284–1300)
    • Radoslav II (fl. 1284–1314)
      • Nicholas II (fl. 1321–1330)
      • Dujam (fl. 1321–1369), ancestor of the Blagaji family

References

1. Koszta 1994, p. 73.
2. Curta 2006, p. 399.
3. Fine 1994, p. 149.
4. Engel: Genealógia (Genus Babonić)

Sources

• Curta, Florin (2006). Southeastern Europe in the Middle Ages, 500–1250. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 978-0-521-89452-4.
• Fine, John V. A (1994). The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest. The University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-08260-4.
• Koszta, László (1994). "Babonić". In Kristó, Gyula; Engel, Pál; Makk, Ferenc. Korai magyar történeti lexikon (9–14. század) [Encyclopedia of the Early Hungarian History (9th–14th centuries)] (in Hungarian). Akadémiai Kiadó. p. 73. ISBN 963-05-6722-9.