Fancica or Francica (, ; died after 1134) was a Hungarian prelate at the turn of the 11th and 12th centuries, who served as Bishop of Zagreb from around 1125 to 1131, then Archbishop of Kalocsa from 1131 until his death. Name His name is preserved by contemporary records in various forms, for instance, Fancica, Fantica or Francika. 18th-century Hungarian Jesuit scholar István Katona identified these variants as equivalents to Francis, although it derived from the given name of St. Francis of Assisi, who lived a century later. Despite this, Croatian historiography accepted this argumentation, while Hungarian academics translated his name to "Fancsika" or "Fáncsika". In the 11th-century Hungary, there was a local man named Fancica, originating from Szamosújvár (present-day Gherla, Romania), who guided the Hungarian royal army against the invading Oghuzes in 1068, which led to the victorious Battle of Kerlés. Ecclesiastical career Fancica started his ecclesiastical career as one of the influential royal chaplains of Ladislaus I of Hungary. In this capacity, he played an important role in the foundation of the Diocese of Zagreb, when he was sent to inaugurate and consecrate its first bishop, Duh around 1090 (there is a scholarly debate about the exact date of the diocese's establishment). In the same time, another royal chaplain Cupan (or Koppány) was commissioned to donate the village of Dubrava (Dombró) with its people, lands and forests to the newly erected diocese. Fancica was among those royal chaplains of Ladislaus, along with Seraphin, Lawrence and Cupan, who later emerged into bishopric positions during the reigns of Ladislaus' successors. By the reign of Stephen II of Hungary, at least from around 1125–28, Fancica was made Bishop of Zagreb. According to Croatian historian Ivan Tkalčić, he already held dignity since 1114 or 1115 (his last known predecessor, Manasses was mentioned as bishop of "Zagorje" [i.e. plausibly Zagreb] by the two royal charters of King Coloman regarding the Zobor Abbey, issued in 1111 and 1113). During the episcopate of Fancica, a certain nobleman Sungenga (Szundenya) questioned the rightful ownership of the Diocese of Zagreb over the forest of Dubrava, as a result the bishop petitioned to the royal court of Stephen II. The king entrusted Felician, Archbishop of Esztergom to investigate the lawsuit. According to historian László Koszta, it proves that the Diocese of Zagreb was one of the suffragans of the Archdiocese of Esztergom during that time (while, later, it