SHORT HISTORY OF THE CROATIAN NOBILITY ASSOCIATION

v        The Croatian Nobility Association (HPZ) was founded in November 1995 by a group of 13 descendants of the noble families from southern (Dubrovnik, Split) and northern Croatia (Lika, Zagreb County), as well as from other historical parts of Croatia.

v        The Association was founded as a national association of the Croatian nobility.

v        The aim of the Association is to gather all what has remained of the Croatian nobility, having preserved their respect for tradition and love for their country.

v        The headquarters of the Association is in Zagreb, and it has branches in Split, Zadar, Osijek, and of course in Zagreb.

v        Organs of the Association are:

                                 1.          Great Nobiliary Council (all members)

                                 2.          Nobiliary Board (seventeen elected members)

                                 3.          Supervisory Board (three elected members)

                                 4.          Senate (special elected members)

                                 5.          Court of Honor (three elected members)

Up till now we have had eleven sessions of the Great Nobiliary Council:

                               0.)          16^th October 1995 in Zagreb,

                               1.)          4^th May 1996 at Nin,

                               2.)          24^th May 1997 in Zagreb,

                               3.)          24^th October 1998 at Knin,

                               4.)          15^th April 2000 in Zagreb,

                               5.)          27^th October 2001 at Samobor,

                               6.)          17^th May 2003 in Zagreb,

                               7.)          9^th April 2005 in Zagreb,

                               8.)          4^th Mart 2006 in Zagreb,

                               9.)          21^st April 2007 in Split,

                           10.)          12^th April 2008 in Zagreb               

              11.)          25^th April 2009 in Zadar

              12.)     27^th November  2010 in Zagreb

In future we will have

         13.)    5^th November 2011 in Zagreb

The Nobiliary Board - the executive body, has meetings from time to time; now every second Wednesday in the month, except during the summer.

v        The first president was Nikola pl. Cindro, the second Ante pl. Rendić-Miočević, and now the incumbent president is Ivo pl. Durbešić.

v        We have now about 180 members.

v        The members of branches have their meetings from time to time with some lectures, excursions, concerts etc.

v        We have our web site www.plemstvo.hr in Croatian as well in English language.

v        From time to time we publish our journal Glasnik with summary in English, up till now 6 issues.

v        Among other jobs, we are dealing now with two quite difficult tasks:

·           To organize permanent lectures under the title "The role of Croatian Nobility in Maintaining the Continuity of the National Idea and Statehood",

·           To prepare the Golden Book of the Noble Families of the HPZ. (We have already published 3 volumes of Contributions to the Golden Book)

Zagreb, November 2008