Vladavina žena na Bečkom dvoru 1711./1712. i Hrvatska pragmatička sankcija
Female reign at the Vienna Court during 1711/1712 and the Croatian Pragmatic Sanction

Summary/Abstract: The 1712 Croatian Pragmatic Sanction is one of the most important laws in Croatian juridical history. Common opinion in the historiography on this subject is that Croatian National Parliament – Sabor – brought that law and gave legal right of succession to the Habsburg’s female line without any interference of the Habsburgs themselves. Yet, the author analyses the possibility that initiative actually came from the Vienna Court. In this political game main performer was queen Eleonora, Leopold’s widow. In the time of the Croatian Pragmatic Sanction promulgation, she was the regent of the Habsburg Monarchy. Protecting Habsburg’s political interests within the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom, she found ideal political partners in the Croatian Kingdom and especially in the figure of Emerik Esterházy, bishop of Zagreb. On the other hand, Croatian political elite, led by bishop Esterházy, considered the Croatian Pragmatic Sanction as an opportunity for the fulfillment of their own political interests and a possibility for the improvement of their status within the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom and Monarchy.

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