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- 2008
Murder of baroness Katarina Keglevi? committed in 1659Keywords: Franjo Petri?evi?, Katarina Keglevi?, nobility, 17th century, wife's murder, testimonies of witnesses, kajkavian dialect, Latin judicial documents Abstract: Sa?etak In the CSA's fonds of the families Or?i? and Claudius (HR HDA 749) a deed of ?azma's Kaptol from 1656 is kept, which contains testimonies of witnesses on a murder of baroness Katarina Keglevi? (Catherine Keglevich), ordered by her husband, duke Franjo Petri?evi? (Francis Petrichevich), in Gornja Stubica. Special value of the text of those testimonies is in fact that, describing Petri?evi?'s crime, it clearly presents characters of the members of different social standings, and literally quoting their words, supplies us with something usually deprived in archival documents. The paper contains also a transcript and Croatian translation of the text with the testimonies of witnesses, accompanied by matching notes
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