Henning–Tahy conflict

Once moved in, Tahy had Ursula and her family completely isolated from the outside world. He deployed 40 of his soldiers to hold Hennings hostage inside. Tahy also started his cruel treatment of local peasants and forbade them to make contact with Ursula. Ursula then complained to the king about Tahy's behaviour, but without much success.[4]

In 1565, when Tahy was away fighting the Ottomans in Hungary, Ursula Henning assembled the 800 strong army of local peasants, who then came to Susedgrad and purged Tahy's family out and looted their possessions worth 25 000 Forints. Tahy then complained to the ruler, but Ursula refused to obey to his orders. Upon learning of violent Henning takeover, ban of Croatia, Peter Erdody, assembled his own army and marched them off to Susedgrad in order to punish Ursula and re-install Tahys back to their possession.[2]

Upon learning this, Ursula's ally - Croatian viceban Ambroz Gregorijanec, along with other Henning family members again assembled 3000 strong peasant army.[1] Hennings deployed their peasant army both inside the fortress and on nearby ambush positions. On 2 July 1565, ban's army consisting of few hundred cavalrymen, few hundred haramijas and three cannons arrived on plains below Susedgrad castle.[5] On the eve of July 3rd, Erdody's army approached close to Susedgrad and started bombarding it with cannon fire.[5]

Henning's peasants who awaited in ambush, swiftly attacked the ban's army and in "short but bloody skirmish", killed many of Erdody's men, some of whom drowned in Sava river while trying to flee.[5] Throughout the battle, Henning's peasant army completely defeated the army of Croatian ban and even managed to capture 3 cannons and banner of Croatian ban in the process.[1][3] They also gravely wounded distinguished nobles such as Petar Keglević and Petar Ratkay, who had to be treated for their wounds in Zagreb.[5] Although most of his army was annihilated near the castle, Erdody refused to withdraw completely, but went on to raid Susedgrad seigniory countryside.[3]

Copy of six meters long list of complaints against Ferenc Tahy's behaviour.

Because of waging a battle against the state authorities, Gregorijanec was relieved of his position of viceban on Croatian sabor on 25 July 1566, while Ursula was trialed against.[1]Tahy also forced Hennings to lay off their officials who assembled the peasant army and prepared the battle. In 1566., Tahy was again brought in on his half of Susedgrad-Stubica seigniory, while its remaining half was confiscated by Royal Chamber, until the court case against Ursula was resolved. Tahy used this opportunity to make his revenge against those peasants and officials who fought or sided with Ursula against him.[1] His Henning adversaries, also sent complaints of their own against Tahy to the king. Eventually, the investigation was launched, and it was concluded with a giant, six meters long list of accusations for all sorts of brutalities against Tahy, since lots of witnesses spoke against him. The investigation also further sparked the peasant movement against Tahy.[1]

While Ursula was banned from Susedgrad by the state because she fought a battle against ban's army in 1566, Tahy's continuous and constant strifes with the peasants on his estate culminated in Croatian - Slovene Peasant Revolt of 1573.[1] Soon after the revolt was crushed, Tahy died in 1573.