John of Palisna

John of Palisna (, ) (? – 23 March 1391) was a Croatian knight and warrior, prior of Vrana, and Ban of Croatia.
Prior of Vrana.
It is unclear when John of Palisna became prior of Vrana. In May 1381 he was already prior, because the citizens of Zadar were complaining about him to the King of Hungary and Croatia. He co-ruled with relative Ivan (John) Anjou Horvat de Radics as a Ban of Croatia from 1385 to 1386, and in 1389.
In 1389, Bosnian King Tvrtko I sent a contingent of Knights Hospitallers led by a certain John in aid to Serbian Prince Lazar, who was fighting against the Ottoman Empire. These units fought in the battle of Kosovo. Whether these troops were led by John of Palisna or John Horvat is not known with certainty. The historian Neven Budak considers that it was John of Palisna as he had a connection to the crusaders and the title of ban. In the same year, John lost one of his last strongholds in Croatia, the Klis Fortress. Without the help from the Kingdom of Bosnia, John was unable to resist Sigismund's allies, especially when he personally went away, to fight against the Ottomans.
Plot against Elizabeth.
John of Palisna opposed the rule of Elizabeth of Bosnia. He was mainly opposed to the centralizing policy which Elizabeth's husband had enforced. He hoped to regain local independence by rising against Elizabeth. Elizabeth's own first cousin, King Tvrtko, with whom she was raised, decided to take advantage of Louis' death and Elizabeth's unpopularity by trying to recover the Dalmatian lands he had lost to Louis in 1357. John of Palisna asked Tvrtko for help but was ultimately defeated by Elizabeth's army and forced to flee to Bosnia.