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John Hunyadi, a Hungarian hero, was subordinated to the ideology of National Communism in the era of Ceaușescu and transmuted into a hero of Romania. [225] Pope Pius II writes that "Hunyadi did not increase so much the glory of the Hungarians, but especially the glory of the Romanians among whom he was born." [226] [227] [228] [229]
John Hunyadi (c. 1419 – 1440 or 1441) was a Hungarian noble and knight banneret. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ 3 ] He was a member of a noble family of Wallachian ancestry. He was the younger brother of regent John Hunyadi and the second son of Vajk ( Voyk ), a Wallachian noble.
John Hunyadi's rapid advance, which astonished his contemporaries, and gave rise to legends about his origins. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] According to one of these stories, recorded in detail by the 16th-century historian Gáspár Heltai , John Hunyadi was the illegitimate son of King Sigismund with a woman named Elizabeth, who was the daughter of a "rich ...
The siege of Belgrade, or siege of Nándorfehérvár (Hungarian: Nándorfehérvár ostroma or nándorfehérvári diadal, lit. "Triumph of Nándorfehérvár"; Serbian Cyrillic: Опсада Београда, romanized: Opsada Beograda) was a military blockade of Belgrade that occurred 4–22 July 1456 in the aftermath of the fall of Constantinople in 1453 marking the Ottomans' attempts to ...
The Captain in Chief were a group of regents elected in 1445, by the Hungarian Estates. [1] The Captain in Chiefs contained seven members, John Hunyadi, Nicholas Újlaki, George Rozgonyi, Emeric Bebek, Michael Ország, Pongrac Szentmiklósi, and John Jiskra.
Hunyadi may refer to: Hunyadi family, a Hungarian noble family from the Middle Ages; Hunyadi Castle, a medieval castle of the Hunyadi family in Transylvania in the Kingdom of Hungary, (today Hunedoara, Romania) John Hunyadi (c. 1406–1456), Hungarian general and Regent-Governor of the Kingdom of Hungary; Ladislaus Hunyadi (1431–1457 ...
John Filipec, on behalf of the new king, helped to convince Silesian Black Army leader John Haugwitz to return to duty in exchange for 100,000 forints. The Hungarian–Czech army of 18,000 met the Polish troops in December 1491 in the Battle of Eperjes ( Prešov ), which was a decisive victory for the Black Army. [ 42 ]
John Hunyadi aided Władysław's cause by pacifying the eastern counties, gaining him the position of Nádor of Transylvania and the corresponding responsibility of protecting Hungary's southern border. By the end of 1442, Władysław had secured his status in Hungary, and rejected an Ottoman proposal of peace in exchange for Belgrade.