{{Infobox officeholder |name = Peter Erdődy<br>Petar II. Erdödy |image = |caption = |image_size = |order = Ban of Croatia |term_start = 27 December 1556 |term_end = 26 April 1567 |predecessor = Nikola IV Zrinski |successor = Franjo Frankopan Slunjski<br />Juraj Drašković |order2 = |term_start2 = |term_end2 = |predecessor2 = |successor2 = |birth_date = |birth_place = |death_date = 26 April 1567 |death_place = Jastrebarsko, Kingdom of Croatia |resting_place = Church of St. Nicholas, Jastrebarsko, Croatia |spouse = |parents = Peter I Erdődy |party = |other_party = |profession = |battles = }}
'''Péter II Erdődy''' ({{Langx|hr|Petar II. Erdődy}}; {{circa}} 1504–1567)<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.enciklopedija.hr/clanak/erdody-petar-ii|title=Erdődy, Petar II.|website=Hrvatska enciklopedija|language=hr|access-date=}}</ref> (Erdődy: a Hungarian noble family in the Kingdom of Hungary and Croatia since the Middle Ages) was the Ban of Croatia from 1557 to 1567 and the founding member of the Croatian branch of the Erdődy noble family.
Péter was born around 1504. He was the son of Peter I Erdődy, the nephew of Tamás Bakócz. He succeeded the famous Nikola IV Zrinski as ban in 1557. He first gained notoriety with a series of military victories against the Ottoman Empire in 1552, including setting fire to Gradiška with Juraj Frankopan.
He was given the titles of ''Reichsgraf'' in 1565 and ''Reichsfürst'' in 1566 by Maximilian II. Because he died soon (one year) after that, the titles weren't nostrificated{{clarify|date=December 2019}}. The title of ''Reichsgraf'' was nostrificated in 1580 for his two sons Thomas II and Peter III by Rudolf II. But the title of ''Reichsfürst'' got forgotten.
He died in 1567 in Jastrebarsko.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.jastrebarsko.hr/jastrebarsko/kuturna_bastina/sakralni-objekti/|title=Grad Jastrebarsko|website=www.jastrebarsko.hr|language=hr|accessdate=}}</ref> His first son Toma Erdődy later became ban as well.
==See also== * List of Bans of Croatia
== Sources == * ''"Die Geschichte des Hauses Erdődy"'' ("The History of the Erdődy family") after Dr. Karl Giay which is attached to Gräfin Helene Erdődy's book ''"Erinnerungen"'' ("Memories"). Released 1929 by Amalthea-Verlag, Vienna
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