page_title: Pejačević family
section_title: Virovitica branch
hierarchical_section_title: Pejačević family / Family branches / Virovitica branch
caption_attribution_description: gróf Pejacsevich Péter (1804–1887) politikus, miniszter. Rusz Károly metszete (Vasárnapi Ujság, 1871. február 26.)
context_page_description: The Pejačević or Pejácsevich family is an old Croatian noble family, remarkable during the period in history marked by the Ottoman war in the Kingdom of Croatia and Austro-Hungarian Empire respectively. Notable members of the family were politicians, clerics, artists, senior military officers, Bans of Croatia and other high state officials. They were very potent and influential in the political, social, economic and cultural life of the country, and especially distinguished in the region of Slavonia. In German and Spanish, the family name was sometimes rendered Pejacsevich, i.e. a simplified variant of the Hungarian spelling.
context_section_description: As the sole heir, Josip II Pejačević took over the Virovitica estate in 1769. On July 22, 1772, the Holy Roman Empress and the Croato-Hungarian Queen Maria Theresa of Austria gave him the title of hereditary count, and since then the whole family carries the full name "Pejačević of Virovitica".
  Josip was succeeded in Virovitica by his youngest son Antun, a Habsburg imperial army lieutenant field marshal with an outstanding military career. In 1800 Antun had a beautiful new castle built in the center of Virovitica, but soon he died (in 1802) and did not live to see the completion of construction.
  Virovitica branch was continued by Antun's sons Antun (c. 1775 – 1838) and Stjepan (Stephen; after 1775 – 1824), who did not run the estates successfully and fell into debt. In 1841 Antun Pejačević (1810–1862), Antun's son, sold Virovitica estate and moved to Buda, Hungary. Neither he nor his brother Ivan Nepomuk Pejačević (John of Nepomuk; 1803–1855) – also living in the capital of Hungary – had any children, so this branch of the family died out. Some historians call it the Buda branch.
caption: Count Petar Pejačević (1804–1887)
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