Abstract: The Franciscan Monastery of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Cetin is best remembered as the site where the Croatian nobility and church prelates assembled on January 1st, 1527. This historic event, documented in a solemn decree, marked the election of Ferdinand I of Habsburg as the Croatian king. Despite its significance, the monastery’s history and importance have received little attention in Croatian historiography. Therefore, the first aim of this paper is to address this gap by utilizing lesser-known and rarely used historical sources. Additionally, the paper seeks to determine the monastery’s location within late medieval Cetin. It examines existing theories about its site, evaluates the validity of these conclusions, and proposes new possibilities for its location based on an analysis of preserved written sources, early modern cartographic data, and field research. The research and considerations presented here indicate that the Franciscan Monastery was most likely founded by Count Stephan III Frankapan in 1463 or 1464, when he brought the Franciscan friars to Cetin and entrusted them with the management of the church of the same name, which had already been a significant pilgrimage site for some time. In the following years, the monastery became extremely important and by the beginning of the 16th century, it served as the center of the Observant Franciscan Vicariate of Bosnia Croatia, which later became a province after the vicariate was elevated to the rank of a province in 1517. By the mid-16th century, they were no longer realistically the Counts Frankapans able to exercise patronage over the Diocese of Krbava or the Franciscan Province of Bosnia Croatia, as the wars with the Ottomans had noticeably diminished their social and material power. The latest possible timeframe for the departure of the Franciscans from Cetin is suggested to be 1575, as mentioned by Adam Baltazar Krčelić. Furthermore, the considerations presented in this paper, whic
Franjevački samostan Pohođenja Blažene Djevice Marije u Cetinu najviše se pamti kao mjesto gdje su se 1. siječnja 1527. godine okupili hrvatsko plemstvo i crkveni prelati. Ovaj povijesni događaj, zabilježen u svečanoj ispravi, označio je izbor Ferdinanda I. Habsburškog za hrvatskog kralja. Unatoč njegovom značaju, povijest i važnost samostana nisu dobile veliku pažnju u hrvatskoj historiografiji. Stoga je prvi cilj ovog rada riješiti taj nedostatak koristeći manje poznate i rijetko korištene povijesne izvore. Osim toga, rad ima za cilj utvrditi lokaciju samostana unutar kasnosrednjovjekovnog Cetina. Ispituje postojeće teorije o njegovoj lokaciji, ocjenjuje valjanost tih zaključaka te predlaže nove mogućnosti za njegovu lokaciju na temelju analize sačuvanih pisanih izvora, ranonovovjekovnih kartografskih podataka i terenskog istraživanja. Istraživanja i razmatranja predstavljena ovdje ukazuju na to da je franjevački samostan najvjerojatnije osnovao knez Stjepan III. Frankapan oko 1463. ili 1464. godine, kada je doveo franjevce u Cetin i povjerio im upravljanje već postojećom crkvom, koja je već neko vrijeme bila značajno hodočasničko mjesto. U sljedećim godinama, samostan je postao iznimno važan i do početka 16. stoljeća služio je kao središte Vikarije franjevaca opservanata Bosna-Hrvatska, koja je 1517. godine uzdignuta na rang provincije. Sredinom 16. stoljeća, Frankapani više nisu mogli stvarno vršiti pokroviteljstvo nad Krbavskom biskupijom ili franjevačkom opservantskom provincijom Bosna-Hrvatska, jer su ratovi s Osmanlijama vidno smanjili njihovu društvenu i materijalnu moć. Najkasniji mogući okvir za odlazak franjevaca iz Cetina sugerira se kao 1575. godina, kako to spominje Adam Baltazar Krčelić. Nadalje, razmatranja izložena u ovom radu, koja uključuju novu analizu poznatih i nepoznatih srednjovjekovnih i ranonovovjekovnih pisanih izvora i karata, kao i terenskih istraživanja, pružaju zatvoreni krug indicija da se franjevački samostan Pohođenja Blažene Djevi
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