His second brother Franko (Franjo) was the ban of Severin, prefect of Temeš and captain of Nándorfehérvár (modern-day Belgrade).
[citation needed] Matko served at the court of Serbian Despot Stefan Lazarević.
After Stefan's death in 1427, he joined Hungarian and Croatian King Sigismund and was in 1430 appointed Count of Keve and Castellan of Hungarian-held Belgrade.
[10] He held land in Topolovica (old sources call it Thallowch, Talloca, Tallowcz, Tallocz, Tallovec, Tallovez or Talloucz), given to him by Sigismund from which he took the name Talovac.
His rule came at a time of rapturous Ottoman incursions into Croatian[11] territory and internal fighting of feudal lords.