!!!Cilli, Grafengeschlecht

Cilli, Counts in former Southern Styria (today Slovenia). The Barons 
of Soune (Souneck) inherited the estates of the Counts of Heunburg and 
Ortenburg and were recognized as Counts von Cilli by Emperor Ludwig IV 
in 1341. They further improved their status through marriage 
connections with families of the higher nobility (e.g the Luxemburg 
family). The Counts von Cilli were made imperial counts in 1436 by 
Emperor Sigismund. They owned a great number of estates in the 
Habsburg territories (Styria, Carinthia, Carniola) and in the 
territories of the Hungarian crown (Croatia, Slovenia). While 
Friedrich III tried to prevent the Cillis from developing a territory 
of their own, Count Ulrich II was extremely influential at court, 
especially while  Ladislaus Postumus was still a minor. On Nov. 9, 
1456, Count Ulrich von C. was murdered in Belgrade by Ladislaus 
Hunyádi, son of the administrator of the Hungarian realm and 
brother of  Matthias Corvinus His estates in Hungary fell to the 
Hungarian crown, those in the Habsburg countries to Friedrich III 
until 1460 (Peace of Pusarnitz).

!Literature
H. Pirchegger, Die Grafen. v. C., 1955.


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