House of Oršić

House of Oršić Croatian noble family
Country	Croatia
Estates	Slavetić, Gornja Stubica, Gornja Bistra, Jurketinec etc.
Titles	baron (since 1675), count (since 1744)
Founded	15th century (1420)
Dissolution	still present
Ethnicity	Croatian

The House of Oršić (English: Orssich or Orsich) is an old Croatian noble family, descending from the ancient Croatian tribes of Lapčans and Karinjans, remarkable in the Kingdom of Croatia in personal union with Hungary and within the Habsburg Monarchy respectively, whose notable members were politicians, senior military officers, župans or other state officials, as well as cultural workers and patrons.

The first mention of the Oršić family name appeared in a document from Knin in 1420. The members of the family were mentioned to have originated from the area of Unac River, a tributary of Una, in the medieval Croatian county of Pset. In another document from 1449, they are quoted as "Oršićs from Udrinić" (present-day Drinić, a village in the Bosanski Petrovac Municipality, western Bosnia and Herzegovina).

In the middle of the 15th century (between 1464 and 1472), the Oršićs moved to the northwest, due to the fall of the Kingdom of Bosnia and increasing danger of Ottoman Turks' territorial advancement. They settled in Gorička County (Croatian: Gorička županija), near present-day Karlovac, and acquired some smaller estates (Orehovac, Dol, Lipovac). In 1487, king Matija Korvin granted them Slavetić estate, northwest of Jastrebarsko, and since then they carried the name Orssichs of Slavetich (Croatian: Oršići Slavetićki). They had a new castle built there, which still exists today. Later they gained other estates like Gornja Stubica, Gornja Bistra and Jurketinec (near Varaždin).

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