Antun Vrančić
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His Excellency Antun Vrančić |
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| Archbishop of Esztergom Primate of Hungary |
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Engraving of Vrančić by Martin Rota
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| Archdiocese | Archdiocese of Esztergom |
| Installed | 17 October 1569 |
| Term ended | 15 June 1573 |
| Predecessor | Miklós Oláh |
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| Consecration | 3 August 1554 |
| Created Cardinal | 5 June 1573 by Pope Gregory XIII |
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| Born | May 29, 1504 Sebenico, Republic of Venice (today Šibenik, Croatia) |
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June 15, 1573 (aged 69) Eperjes, Kingdom of Hungary (today Prešov, Slovakia) |
| Buried | Saint Nicolas' Church, Trnava (Slovakia) |
| Nationality | Venetian Croatian |
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| Motto | "Ex alto omnia" |
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Antun Vrančić or Antonio Veranzio (May 29, 1504 – June 15, 1573) was a Croatianprelate, writer, diplomat and Archbishop of Esztergom of the 16th century. Antun Vrančić was from Dalmatian town of Šibenik (modern Croatia), then part of the Republic of Venice. Vrančić is also known under his Latinized name Antonius Verantius, while Hungarian documents since the 19th century refer to him as Verancsics Antal.
Vrančić was born and raised in Šibenik, city in Dalmatia in the former Republic of Venice. Most historians accept a hypothesis that the Vrančić family was one of the Bosnian noble families that had moved to Šibenik in the era of Ottoman military incursions. Vrančić's uncle Ivan Statilić and his other relative, Croatian viceroy Petar Berislavić, took care of his education. His maternal uncle, John Statileo, Bishop of Transylvania also supported him in Trogir, Šibenik, since 1514 in Hungary and in Padua, where he earned the degree of magister in 1526. After later studies at Vienna and Kraków, Vrančić entered diplomatic service, aged only 26.
In 1530 John Zápolya appointed him as the provost of the Buda cathedral and as a royal secretary. Between 1530-1539 he was also the deputy of the King and after his death he remained with his widow, Isabella Jagiellon. In 1541 he moved with her to Transylvania, but he mostly traveled fulfilling diplomatic services because of his disagreement with cardinal Juraj Utješinović's policy of claiming the Hungarian throne for Isabella's and Zápolya's infant son (instead of conceding it to Ferdinand I as per Treaty of Nagyvárad). Utješinović, appointed by Zápolya as a guardian of his son, John Sigismund Zápolya, fought against Ferdinand and allied himself with the Ottoman Empire.
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