NASLJEĐE GROFA VETERANIJA I VLASTELINSTVO DARDA KRAJEM 17. I POČETKOM 18. STOLJEĆA
THE HERITAGE OF COUNT JOHANN FRIEDRICH VETERANI AND THE ESTATE OF DARDA AT THE END OF THE SEVENTEENTH AND THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURIES

Summary/Abstract: John Friedrich Veterani (1643 – 1695) was a descendant of an impoverished Italian noble family. While his brother Simone Lorenzo chose a priest’s calling, he managed to find a place in one regiment of the Habsburg army. He slowly advanced through the ranks, building his career, and around the year 1683 he got the rank of a colonel and his own regiment. He participated in numerous sieges and battles on Hungarian soil during the war against the Ottomans, as well as in the fighting around Osijek in 1687. Next year he was promoted to the rank of vice-marshal and sent to Transylvania (Erdely), where, on and off, he was to spend many years. Emperor Leopold entrusted him the military administration of Transylvania in the hope that Veterani will succeed in maintaining the fragile compromise with the local nobility and the prince, who have until recently acknowledged Ottoman rule. The successful period in which Veterani became fieldmarshal was interrupted in the beginning of 1695 when Ottomans began new attacks, determined to regain Transylvania under their rule. In a short period of time they managed to isolate Veterani and his small troops from the rest of the Imperial army, surround him and defeat on September 21st. Fieldmarshal ended his days in captivity under unclear circumstances. Estates in Baranja (Darda and its surroundings), which were promised to him went into the hands of his only remaining descendant - his daughter Maria Camilla and her husband, count Marsiki, who took Veterani’s surname. Marsiki outlived his wife who died in 1721 as well as their only son, so he carried his surname onto his grandson, Johann Julius Mallenthein. Veterani-Mallenthein family ruled Darda manor until 1749. when it became property of Esterhazy family.

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