{"id":1175,"date":"2026-09-15T16:53:46","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T14:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/?p=1175"},"modified":"2026-09-16T17:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T15:34:16","slug":"oter-gorencic-mija","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/oter-gorencic-mija\/","title":{"rendered":"OTER GOREN\u010cI\u010c Mija"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Mapping the Networks of the Counts of Cilli: A Prosopographical Approach<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Free Lords of Sanneck (\u017dovne\u0161ki), who were elevated to counts in 1341 and acquired the title of princes in 1436, rose meteorically within just one hundred years to become one of the leading, most influential, and elite noble dynasties of the late Middle Ages in Central Europe and, to some extent, beyond. Through diplomacy and an exceptionally well-conceived marriage policy, they established a powerful and carefully structured social network that extended across Europe, from the courts of the Iberian Peninsula in the west to Poland, Lithuania, and Prussia in the north, from Dubrovnik in the south to the Ottoman court in the east. The family achieved great success in 1405 with the marriage of Barbara of Celje to Sigismund of Luxembourg, who, at the height of his political career, was King of Hungary, King of Germany, King of Bohemia, and later Holy Roman Emperor. However, this was not their only triumph. Barbara and Sigismund\u2019s daughter, Elizabeth, married Albert II of Habsburg, King of Hungary, Bohemia, and Germany, thus becoming Queen of Hungary, Bohemia, and Germany herself. In the 15th century, the Celje family was also linked by marriage to the Polish Jagiellonian rulers, the Hungarian palatines, the leading Croatian noble dynasty of the Frankopans, the Bavarian Dukes of Wittelsbach, the Silesian Princes of Teschen-Glogau, the Saxon House of Wettin, the Serbian despots of the Brankovi\u0107 family, the Hungarian barons of the Hunyadi family, and even the Ottoman court, as the sister-in-law of the last Count of Celje was the sultan\u2019s wife. Despite their remarkable rise and influence on contemporary European politics, their artistic heritage has never been systematically studied, nor has the potential of prosopographical research been fully exploited for the interpretation and understanding of their artistic commissions. This paper therefore presents an approach to investigating the social network of the Counts of Celje and assessing its influence on their decisions regarding artistic patronage and the conception of their commissions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">*<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mija Oter Goren\u010di\u010d is Head of the France Stele Institute of Art History at ZRC SAZU and Chair of the ZRC SAZU Scientific Council. Her research focuses on medieval art, particularly medieval iconography, monastic art and artistic patronage by medieval noble families. She is also Associate Professor at the Department of Art History, University of Maribor. She has led five national research projects and one bilateral Slovenia\u2013Austria project. Among several awards and scholarships, she received the Joint Excellence in Science and Humanities scholarship from the Austrian Academy of Sciences. She is currently leading the research project <em>Artistic Heritage of the Counts of Celje<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">E-mail: mija.oter@zrc-sazu.si<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mapping the Networks of the Counts of Cilli: A Prosopographical Approach The Free Lords of Sanneck (\u017dovne\u0161ki), who were elevated to counts in 1341 and acquired the title of princes in 1436, rose meteorically within just one hundred years to become one of the leading, most influential, and elite noble dynasties of the late Middle [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1175","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-participants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1175"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1176,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1175\/revisions\/1176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1175"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1175"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/prosopography.zrc-sazu.si\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1175"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}