Herbard VIII von Auersperg

Herbard VIII von Auersperg, Freiherr from 1550, Slovenized as Hervard Turjaški (15 June 1528 in Vienna – 22 September 1575 near Budački on the Military Frontier) was a governor of Carniola supporting Protestantism, and an imperial Habsburg general in the wars against the Ottoman Empire.

While Mustafa sent for resupply from Banja Luka, Ausperger with Croatian viceroy Erdődy, prince Slunjski and Peter Farkasić arrived on the west bank of the Una with 7,000 soldiers.

As a renowned pillar of Protestantism Herbard von Auersperg thus opposed strongly the counter-reformatory measures of the Inner-Austrian Court in Graz and resisted the Catholic clerics in Carniola, who were mostly strangers to the land.

Following the death of Lenković (1569) he rose to general in charge of all the Austrian Military Frontier area in the south-east, but lost his life in September 1575 in the battle of Budačka at the Croatian border neafighting greatly superior Turkish forces.

Tradition has it[4] that, together with what Herbard's widow paid as ransom for the release of their son Wolf Engelbrecht (or Engelbert), who had been taken captive in the same battle, it made possible the erection of the grand Ferhat Pasha Mosque in Banja Luka.