Naslov
Sigismund's followers and opponents (supporters of Ladislas of Naples) among Croatian noblemen and Dalmatian urban nobility during the civil war

Autori
Karbić, Damir

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Radovi u zbornicima skupova, cjeloviti rad (in extenso), znanstveni

Izvornik
Sigismund de Luxemburg şi timpul său / - , 2007

Skup
Sigismund de Luxemburg şi timpul său

Mjesto i datum
Oradea, Rumunjska, 06.12.2007. - 09.12.2007

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
plemstvo; politička povijest; Žigmund Luksemburški; srednji vijek
(nobility; political history; Sigismund of Luxemburg; the Middle Ages)

Sažetak
Due to their geographical position between Hungary and Southern Italy, Croatia and Dalmatia played an important role during the civil war between the supporters of Queen Mary and Sigismund of Luxemburg and the Neapolitan Angevins (1385-1409). This was particularly true in the case of the Neapolitans, for who the control over them was a necessary precondition for any further move Northward and the conquest of the crown itself. On the other hand, from the same reason the opposite side also could not risk loosing the control and thus the area was relatively frequently in the centre of war efforts of both parties. The paper explores the manpower the fighting parties could count on in Croatia and Dalmatian cities. In spite of the fact that major participants in the aforementioned struggles (baronial factions supporting one or the other side) are well known both on the level of the Kingdom of Hungary in general or in the case of the Kingdom of Croatia-Dalmatia in particular, the composition of their military retinues and political factions on lesser levels still is an interesting research subject. The situation was even more complex, because it constantly changed over time, due to the fact that leading persons might (and did) changed sides during the events taking their supporters with them. This was true in cases of both Croatian magnates (the Nelipići, the Kurjakovići of Krbava/Corbaviai, the counts of Krk/Vegla, and so on) or Dalmatian cities, whose urban nobility also participated in these events. In the case of cities, particularly important was the group of the noblemen who were at certain point (mostly by King Louis the Great) given rank of royal knights establishing in that way direct connection with royal court which enabled them to cross boundaries imposed by their urban character and play a role on the general level as did other noblemen of the realm (or even greater, taking into the account the personal character of their bond with the king). In the case of Croatian noblemen, the particularly interesting are those belonging to the Šubić kindred, the noble kindred whose members had played the most important role two generations earlier, in the time when the Angevins became the kings of Hungary-Croatia, but lost their prevalence during the first half of the fourteenth century after coming into the conflict with the Angevin kings. However, in the case of this war, the Šubići were firm supporters of the Queen and later King Sigismund and were thus on the one side persecuted by the supporters of the Angevins and on the other some of them succeeded in establishing their position towards the court (the best example being Viceban James of the Banići branch). Paper also explores how other Croatian noblemen made their choices, which side they took in the events and what were the consequences for them.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
Filozofija

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