ÎNCĂ UN REGE: ALFONSO AL V-LEA DE ARAGON ŞI ELITELE REGATULUI UNGARIEI ÎN SEPTEMBRIE 1444
YET ANOTHER KING: ALFONSO V OF ARAGON AND THE ELITES OF THE KINGDOM OF HUNGARY IN SEPTEMBER 1444

Summary/Abstract: Alfonso V of Aragon, king of Naples, had a claim to the throne of Hungary. His major move came after John Hunyadi became regent of Hungary and sided with the Iberic-Italian monarch (1446-1447). The present paper deals with the “prehistory” of Alfonso’s planned enthronement that left, chiefly after 1920, historiographic scares. The study focuses on the Hungarian contacts of Alfonso on the eve of the ill-fated crusade of Varna, where Władysław I (III) Jagiello, king of Poland and of Hungary, lost his life (1444). Alfonso formally maintained amicable relations with the crusader monarch, but did not acknowledge him as King of Hungary. He only accepted Władysław as king of Poland, Dalmatia and Croatia (the latter however had been in personal union with Buda for a long time). This stance directs our attitude towards to items: (1) the allegiances of Alfonso’s “Hungarian contacts” (the majority of them became members of the Hunyadi-party after 1444) and (2) Hungarian and Romanian reluctances (the main researchers, on both sides, of the Aragonese issue, either omitted these contacts or mentioned in haste and with few details). “A break with the past” seems therefore to be the sound scholarly choiceAlfonso V of Aragon, king of Naples, had a claim to the throne of Hungary. His major move came after John Hunyadi became regent of Hungary and sided with the Iberic-Italian monarch (1446-1447). The present paper deals with the “prehistory” of Alfonso’s planned enthronement that left, chiefly after 1920, historiographic scares. The study focuses on the Hungarian contacts of Alfonso on the eve of the ill-fated crusade of Varna, where Władysław I (III) Jagiello, king of Poland and of Hungary, lost his life (1444). Alfonso formally maintained amicable relations with the crusader monarch, but did not acknowledge him as King of Hungary. He only accepted Władysław as king of Poland, Dalmatia and Croatia (the latter however had been in personal union with Buda for a long time). This stance directs our attitude towards to items: (1) the allegiances of Alfonso’s “Hungarian contacts” (the majority of them became members of the Hunyadi-party after 1444) and (2) Hungarian and Romanian reluctances (the main researchers, on both sides, of the Aragonese issue, either omitted these contacts or mentioned in haste and with few details). “A break with the past” seems therefore to be the sound scholarly choice

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