Petar Berislavić

Croatia and Ottoman expansion in the region in the early 16th century.

Petar Berislavić (or Péter Beriszló in Hungarian) (Trogir, 1475 – 20 May 1520), was the Ban (viceroy) of Croatia from 1513 to 1520 and also bishop of Veszprém. With his activity elevated the status of the Ban of Croatia, and successfully confronted and formed an anti-Ottoman defensive system in the Kingdom of Croatia and Dalmatia.

Family Petar was born 1475 in Trogir as the son of Ivan (of Berislavići Trogirski) and Magdalena daughter of János Statileo.

He was friends with Marko Marulić, Toma Niger, and Antun Vrančić was writing his biography, which was finished and published as Vita Petri Berislavi by Ivan Tomko Mrnavić in 1620.

Career He studied theology in Trogir and Hungary, rising in 1512 to the title of bishop of Veszprém in the Roman Catholic Church.

Berislavić died on 20 May 1520, during a winning battle of Plješevica between Bihać and Korenica, when he was ambushed and killed by the Ottoman forces (reportedly due to the lack of crucial intervention during the battle by captain of Klis, Petar Kružić ).

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