page_title: Croatian nobility
section_title: Families
hierarchical_section_title: Croatian nobility / Families
caption_attribution_description: Slovenčina: Erb prepošta Juraja Draskovicha, nad renesančným portálom, pred budovou prepoštva z roku 1637, na Kapitulskej ulici č. 19 v Bratislave
context_page_description: Croatian nobility was a privileged social class in Croatia during the Antiquity and Medieval periods of the country's history. Noble families in the Kingdom of Croatia included high ranking populates from Slavonia, Dalmatia, Istria, Bosnia and Republic of Ragusa. Members belonged to an elite social hierarchy, normally placed immediately behind blood royalty, that possessed considerably more privileges or eminence than most other classes in a society. Membership thereof typically was often hereditary. Historically, membership in the nobility and the prerogatives thereof have been regulated or acknowledged by the monarch. Acquisition of sufficient power, wealth, military prowess or royal favour enabled commoners to ascend into the nobility. The country's royalty was heavily influenced by France's nobility resulting members of the Royal Courts to assume French titles and practices during French occupation. The controversial assumption of French practices contributed to wide spread political and social elitism among the nobles and monarch.
context_section_description: Dukes/Princes
  Domagojević
  Feštetić
  Gorjanski
  Kačić
  Karlović
  Lacković
  Novosel
  Mlinarić
  Odescalchi
  Bešlagić
  Radić
  Šubić
  Zrinski
  Marquesses
  Frankopan (Frankapan)
  Bombelles
  Bunić
  Sponheim
  Andechs
  Counts
  The seal of the Kingdom of Croatia and Dalmatia was affixed in 1527 to the Cetin Charter that confirmed the Habsburg to be the rulers of Croatia
  Bondić
  Crnković
  Delišimunović
  Drašković
  Erdődy
  Franceschi
  Gundulić
  Gučetić
  Gradić
  Janković
  Jelačić
  Kabužić
  Keglević
  Pejačević
  Pucić (de Zagorie)
  Sorkočević
  Barons
  Banffy
  Cseszneky
  Gutmann
  Knežević
  Nikolić
  Rubido
  Ružić
  Turković
  Vranyczany-Dobrinović
caption: Bratislava Kapitulská ruling family
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