10 Facts About Katarina Zrinska

Katarina Zrinska married Count Petar Zrinski of the House of Zrinski in 1641 and later became known as Katarina Zrinska.

Katarina Zrinska is remembered in Croatia as a patron of the arts, a writer and patriot.

Katarina Zrinska was born in Bosiljevo near the modern city of Karlovac in present-day Croatia to Vuk Krsto Frankopan of the House of Frankopan, a well-known commander and nobleman in the Croatian Military Frontier and his second wife Ursula Inhofer.

Katarina Zrinska was homeschooled in her youth, and learned German during her childhood years along with Hungarian, Latin and Italian which she was later taught.

Katarina Zrinska and Petar had four children, born between 1643 and 1658:.

Katarina Zrinska was mother to Francis II Rakoczi, leader of the Hungarian uprising against the Habsburgs in the early 18th century.

Katarina Zrinska was first arrested and imprisoned in Bruck an der Mur and then ordered into seclusion by the Vienna court.

Katarina Zrinska's most known work, Putni tovarus, was a prayer book published in 1660 and mostly translated from German-language prayers.

The oldest such association bearing Katarina Zrinska's name was founded in 1914 in Punta Arenas in Chile.

The women's societies of the past and their work were largely forgotten during the SFR Yugoslavia period, until the modern-day Zajednica zena Katarina Zrinska was founded in 1999 in Split, as the centre-right Croatian Democratic Union party's women's branch.