John of Palisna

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'''John of Palisna''' ({{langx|hr|Ivan od Paližne}}, {{langx|la|Joannes de Palisna}}) (? – 23 March 1391) was a Croatian knight and warrior, prior of Vrana, and Ban of Croatia.

==Prior of Vrana== It is unclear when John of Palisna became prior of Vrana.<ref name="Hunyadi and Laszlovszky 285-290">Hunyadi and Laszlovszky (2001), pp. 285–290.</ref> In May 1381 he was already prior, because the citizens of Zadar were complaining about him to the King of Hungary and Croatia.<ref name="Hunyadi and Laszlovszky 285-290"/> He co-ruled with relative Ivan (John) Anjou Horvat de Radics as a Ban of Croatia from 1385 to 1386, and in 1389.

In 1389, groups of crusaders linked to the Knights Hospitaller under a ''Domine Johanne Bano'' are mentioned as fighting in the battle of Kosovo in Annales Forolivienses. ''Domine Johanne Bano'' most probably refers to John of Palisna, although identification with a John Horvat has also been proposed.{{sfn|Budak|2001|p=287}} In the same year, John lost one of his last strongholds in Croatia, the Klis Fortress. Without the help from the Kingdom of Bosnia, John was unable to resist Sigismund's allies, especially when he personally went away, to fight against the Ottomans.<ref name="Hunyadi and Laszlovszky 285-290"/><ref> H. Gračanin, Ivan paližna u povijesnim vrelima i historiografiji, 2011. https://hrcak.srce.hr/file/114280 pp. 240-247</ref>

==Plot against Elizabeth== John of Palisna opposed the rule of Elizabeth of Bosnia.<ref name="Fine 395">Fine (The Late Medieval Balkans – 1994), p. 395.</ref> He was mainly opposed to the centralizing policy which Elizabeth's husband had enforced.<ref name="Fine 395"/> He hoped to regain local independence by rising against Elizabeth.<ref name="Fine 395"/> Elizabeth's own first cousin, King Tvrtko, with whom she was raised, decided to take advantage of Louis' death and Elizabeth's unpopularity by trying to recover the Dalmatian lands he had lost to Louis in 1357.<ref name="Fine 395"/> John of Palisna asked Tvrtko for help but was ultimately defeated by Elizabeth's army and forced to flee to Bosnia.<ref name="Fine 395"/>

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===Bibliography=== * {{cite book | first = John Van Antwerp | last = Fine | author-link = John Van Antwerp Fine Jr. | title = The Late Medieval Balkans: A Critical Survey from the Late Twelfth Century to the Ottoman Conquest | publisher = University of Michigan Press | location = Ann Arbor | year = 1994 | isbn = 978-0-472-08260-5 | url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Hh0Bu8C66TsC }} *{{cite book |last1=Budak |first1=Neven |editor1-last=Hunyadi |editor1-first=Zsolt |editor2-last=Laszlovszky |editor2-first=Jozsef |title=The Crusades and the Military Orders: Expanding the Frontiers of Medieval Latin Christianity |date=2001 |publisher=Central European University Press |isbn=963-9241-42-3 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1m4fbJyQ4pkC |chapter=John of Palisna, the Hospitaller Prior of Varna}}

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