Robert Wingfield angol követ, a Német-római Birodalom és a Magyar Királyság (1514–1515)
Sir Robert Wingfield, Resident Ambassador of Tudor England, the Holy Roman Empire and Hungary (1514–1515)

Summary/Abstract: Sir Robert Wingfield was the first resident ambassador of England delegated by to the court of Emperor Maximilian I. He regularly sent a great number of dispatches, letters and relations to King Henry VIII and Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey for seven years, which are to be seen as important evidence for the history of Hungary. Wingfield spent most of his times following the Emperor’s more or less itinerant court and government from Bavaria and Lower Austria to Carniola in the years of 1514 and 1515, also staying for days just a few miles from the Hungarian border. He provided first-hand information of the peasant uprising led by György Dózsa in 1514 and was himself present at the congress of Vienna between the sovereigns of Hungary, Poland and the Holy Roman Empire, arranging for an inheritance treaty. The envoy notified the Chancery of the affairs of Hungary and the Turk – letting the Cardinal know of János Szapolyai’s schemes – which became vital for early Tudor foreign policy as Wolsey wished to have a dominant role in the power constellation. Wingfield was almost uniquely well-informed and had most appropriate knowledge of the workings of Hungarian politics.

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