Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/94kl4cljwm
One Charter from Venetian Archive or how John Corvinus became Noblemen of Venice
Suzana Miljan
; Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Institute of Historical and Social Sciences, Department of Historical Research, Zagreb, Croatia
Alexandru Simon
; Romanian Academy, Centre of Transylvanian Studies, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
Abstract
Matthias Corvinus seemingly had various plans for his illegitimate son John Corvinus: from John’s official acknowledgement to his willingness to partition his lands so that John can survive as a monarch. In May 1497, following a year of negotiations, John Corvinus, the husband of Beatrice Frankapan, recently reconciled with the King of the Romans, Maximilian I of Habsburg, and Venice’s “Eastern favourite”, Stephen III of Moldavia, was admitted into the ranks of the elite of the Republic of Saint Mark. Granting of the status of Venetian nobleman was of paramount importance for John, allowing him to rise between the Adriatic and the Danube. The diploma, issued by Doge Agostino Barbarigo, published here for the first time, marked precisely that new beginning for John.
Keywords
John Corvinus; Venice; nobility; political history; the Late Middle Ages
Hrčak ID:
281722
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Publication date:
13.9.2022.
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