Jessica is married to Prince Peter de Frankopan Subic Zrinski.

The Zrinski and Frankopan families came into closer affinity by marriage ties until in the eyes of the European courts they had become one of the most important families of Croatia.

The common belief is that the noble families Zrinski and Frankopan perished through execution in Wiener Neustadt on April 30, 1671, owing to their role in the so called Zrinski-Frankopan Plot ( in Hungarian historiography called the Wesselényi Plot ) against the Emperor Leopold.

Catherine Zrinski ( 1625 – 1673 ), a noted poet, was born in the Frankopan family, and, having married Petar Zrinski, became the member of the Zrinskis.

* Zrinski Frankopan, Toronto

Petar Zrinski was involved in the poorly organized rebellion together with his older brother Nikola Zrinski and his brother-in-law Fran Krsto Frankopan and Hungarian noblemen.

Execution of Zrinski and Frankopan in Wiener Neustadt on 30 April 1671

Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan ( painting )

Zrinski and Frankopan were executed by beheading on 30 April 1671 in Wiener Neustadt.

Along with his wife Katarina, brother Nikola VII Zrinski and brother-in-law Fran Krsto Frankopan he contributed greatly to 17th century Croatian poetry and literature.

Tombstone of Petar Zrinski and Fran Krsto Frankopan in Wiener Neustadt

The bones of Zrinski and Frankopan were found in Austria in 1907 and brought to Zagreb in 1919, where they were reburied in the Zagreb Cathedral.

Zrinski and Frankopan are still widely regarded as national heroes in Croatia as well as Hungary.

* Zrinski – Frankopan conspiracy

The owners of the fortification were members of the noble families Lipovečki, Tot, Frankopan, Benvenjud and finally Zrinski, so the castle is today known as Zrinski castle ( Stari grad Zrinski in Croatian ).

The Frankopan dynasty, together with the Zrinski dynasty dominated Croatian history ( they were the two most prominent families in Croatia from the 14-17 century.

Today, in addition to having the oldest shipyard on the Adriatic, Kraljevica's skyline is dominated by two medieval castles and a church of the Croatian nobles Zrinski and Frankopan.

The noble Croatian families Zrinski and Frankopan viewed the treaty as particularly supplicating to the Ottomans, with them actually having to give the territories that had just been liberated back to the Ottomans as terms of the treaty, some of which belonged to them before occupation.

* Petar Zrinski, Fran Krsto Frankopan i njihovi klevetnici ( 1899 )

The Croats, however, overwhelmed their ban with reproaches for neglecting them to fight for the Magyars, and the emperor simultaneously deprived him of the captaincy of Upper Croatia and sent 10, 000 men to aid the Croats, while the Magyars were left without any help, whereupon Zrinski resigned the banship ( 1561 ).

Later on, the town of Zrin, by which they gained the epithet Zrinski, fell into their hands.

Among them there were ban Petar Berislavić who won a victory at Dubica on the Una river in 1513, the captain of Senj and prince of Klis Petar Kružić, who defended the Klis Fortress for almost 25 years, captain Nikola Jurišić who deterred by a magnitude larger Turkish force on their way to Vienna in 1532, or ban Nikola Šubić Zrinski who helped save Pest from occupation in 1542 and fought in the Battle of Szigetvar in 1566.

The Sultan tried to entice Zrinski to surrender, ultimately offering him leadership of Croatia under Ottoman influence, Count Zrinsky did not reply and continued to fight.

Zrinski is depicted in the plot as a 16th-century Croatian hero who defeated the Turks a couple of times before perishing sacrificially, along with his family and close supporters, in the siege of Szigeth castle.

In the preparations of the plot, plans were disrupted by the death of Nikola Zrinski in the woods near Čakovec by a wounded wild boar — later rumours claimed he was murdered by Habsburg agents, however, this claim could never be substantiated.

* 1671 – Petar Zrinski, the Croatian Ban from the Zrinski family, is executed.

** Petar Zrinski, Croatian Ban ( title ) and nobleman ( b. 1621 )

In April 1995, Democracy Transition Assistance Program ( DTAP ) training began at the " Petar Zrinski " military school in Zagreb.

Nikola Šubić Zrinski () or Miklós Zrínyi () ( Zrin, 1508 – Szigetvár, September 7, 1566 ), was a Croatian nobleman and general in service of Habsburg Monarchy, ban of Croatia from 1542 to 1556, and member of the Zrinski noble family.

Nikola was born in 1508 as the son of Nikola III Zrinski and Jelena Karlović ( sister of future Croatian ban Ivan Karlović ) He distinguished himself at the siege of Vienna in 1529, and in 1542 saved the imperial army from defeat before Pest by intervening with 400 Croats, for which service he was appointed ban of Croatia.

She bore him many children, among which was his successor Juraj IV Zrinski.

In 1556 Zrinski won a series of victories over the Ottomans, culminating in the battle of Babócsa.

In 1563, on the coronation of the Emperor Maximilian as king of Hungary, Zrinski attended the ceremony at the head of 3000 Croatian and Magyar mounted noblemen, in the vain hope of obtaining the dignity of palatine, vacant by the death of Tamás Nádasdy.

The Battle of Szigetvár ended with Zrinski perishing with every member of the garrison in a last desperate sortie.

He was the great-grandfather of Croatian Ban ( Viceroy ) and Croatian / Hungarian poet Nikola Zrinski, as well as his younger brother Petar Zrinski.

The former wrote the Hungarian epic poem, the Peril of Sziget, of which Zrinski is the hero, which has assured Zrinski's place in Hungarian culture.

Nikola Šubić Zrinski is honoured both in Croatia and in Hungary as a national hero.

The Order of Nikola Šubić Zrinski is one of the highest Croatian national decorations.

During the journey through Congo in 1882, he discovered huge waterfalls on the Kouilou River, ( or Kwil ), and named them the Zrinski chutes to honor the national family of rulers ( Nikola Zrinski and Petar Zrinski of Međimurje ) from his native country.

The period of more significant economic and cultural growth of Čakovec is considered to have started in 1547, when Nikola Šubić Zrinski of Szigetvár became the owner of the area.

Duke Juraj IV Zrinski granted privileges to the inhabitants of the Čakovec fortress and its suburbs on May 29, 1579.

The castle which was owned by the Zrinski family between the 16th and the 18th century is known today as the " Old Town of the Zrinskis " () and considered as the landmark of the city.

It is located in the Zrinski Park () only a few steps from the downtown and the central square respectively.

The Čakovec-based company TIZ Zrinski is the largest printing and publishing company in the county as well as one of the major such companies in northern Croatia and many books sold in the country are printed in this factory.