Count Ulrich of Celje - Castle Chapel of St George - Ljubljanski Grad - Ljubljana
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Coat of Arms of Count Ulrich I of Celje, on the ceiling of the Castle Chapel of St George, Ljubljanski Grad, Ljubljana.
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Location: Slovenia
Date Posted: 10/15/2016
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Coat of Arms of Count Ulrich I of Celje on the ceiling of the Castle Chapel of St George, Ljubljanski Grad, Ljubljana. The arms bear the legend ' Ulrich Graf von Cilly A. 1365'.
"Ulrik I. Celje, Celje Count * around 1331 , † 1368 .
He was the son of Frederick I. Celje , married to Adelajdo Ortenburško-Radovljica and father of William of Celje . Between 1359/1360 and 1368, together with his younger brother Herman I of Celje represented Celje County.
Like his father of Frederick I also Ulrik I became Kranj provincial governor (1362). At the time, Ulrich I. of Celje Counts of Celje reaching international Ulrik networks since I was in fact prepared dynastic marriages and as a tenant with its various dinastov Celje troops fighting in Dalmatia , Serbia , Bulgaria , Italy , Bavarian Wittelsbach in Tirol and against Prusom . Count Ulrik I. in 1354 participated in the attack Hungarian-Croatian king Louis I Angevin (husband of Elizabeth Kotromanic) in Zadar, next year is the king participated in battles with the Venetians in Dalmatia, in 1359 and 1365 but has struggled in Serbia and Bulgaria. His son Wilhelm sitting with Hungarian kings fought against the Turks in Serbia. UIrikov brother Herman he , the Balkan policy set even tougher when sitting in 1361 married Catherine, Elisabeth's sister and daughter of the then Bosnian Ban Stjepan II. Kotromanic. Tenancy and trade over longer distances have brought the money with which they Celje increase their property."
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