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- Title
Foreigners at the Royal Court of Stephen Bathory on the Example of Inhabitants from the Lands of the Kingdom of Hungary.
- Authors
KADZIK, DOMINIK
- Abstract
In the early modern period royal courts were institutions which often employed foreigners in various positions. This was a common phenomenon across Europe, also in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth. In this context the period of the first free elections, when a foreigner was elected King of Poland on each occasion, is extremely interesting. In this unique situation the predecessor's court took on a significance that was different from that in the case of a dynasty - the newly elected king did not inherit the entourage of the deceased ruler; at most he would hire some of the personnel to serve him. Moreover, the newly elected monarch would come to the Polish-Lithuanian state with a group of his compatriots, at least some of whom would end up in the new Polish court. From the point of view of the emergence of some phenomena and solutions at the time of the first free elections, the reign of Stephen Báthory seems interesting in this respect. In the article the author presents the number of Hungarians and the offices they held at the Polish court. In addition, he points to the fluctuations among King Stephen's compatriots as well as their position and stature in the various categories of courtiers and court servants. He also seeks to present the question of the internationalisation of the monarch's entourage in comparison with the Jagiellonian period in order to establish whether during Stephen's reign the number of foreigners -in this case the ruler's compatriots -was similar or whether there were any differences. Another problem examined in the article is that of the number of Hungarians in comparison to the Poles as the royal court, and the resulting attitude of the nobility to the "foreigners" surrounding the monarch.
- Subjects
POLAND; COURTS &; courtiers; NONCITIZENS; KINGS &; rulers; NOBILITY (Social class)
- Publication
Historical Review / Przegląd Historyczny, 2021, Vol 112, Issue 2, p397
- ISSN
0033-2186
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.36693/202102pp.397-414