[2] Historian Branko Čičko considers that Tahy did not treat his subjects any worse than other feudal lords of that period and that his negative image was constructed during the 19th century as a personification of bad Hungarians in Croatian national history.

[5] In explaining what caused the revolt, he instead points to struggles for the seigniory ownership and malversations of royal official Stjepan Grdak.

[1] According to story told by a curator of Museum of Peasant Revolts in Gornja Stubica, in Croatian TV show Hrvatski velikani,[6] Tahy's grave was kicked out of church where he was originally buried - by the order of local priest - because infertile village women came to worship Tahy's relief hoping that it would make them fertile again.

Tahy was portrayed by Serbian actor Pavle Vuisić in Yugoslav/Croatian historical war movie Anno Domini 1573.

[8] Croatian heavy metal band Podne Rogato made a song named "Franjo Tahi" dedicated to him.