Naslov
Croats and the Fifth Crusade: Had the two members of the Babonići noble family accompanied King Andrew II of Hungary on his Crusade?

Autori
Kekez, Hrvoje

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Sažeci sa skupova, neobjavljeni rad, znanstveni

Skup
Contextualising the Fifth Crusade

Mjesto i datum
Canterbury, Ujedinjeno Kraljevstvo, 13.04.2012. - 14.04.2012

Vrsta sudjelovanja
Pozvano predavanje

Vrsta recenzije
Međunarodna recenzija

Ključne riječi
Fifth Crusade; King Andrew II of Hungary; the Babonići noble family; medieval Kingdom of Hungary; Croatia; forgery; oral family history

Sažetak
King Andrew II of Hungary was one of the key figures of the Fifth Crusade. He led his army composed of knights, magnates and prelates of Kingdom of Hungary, which included the Kingdoms at those time inhabited by Croats – Croatia-Dalmatia and Slavonia. But there is no mention of any Croatian noblemen in any preserved written narrative of the western origin. Nevertheless, after his return from the Crusade King Andrew II issued several charters to the Hungarian and Croatian noblemen in which he granted some estates in order to acknowledge them for participating on his Crusade. Among them were the two members of the Babonići noble family from the southern areas of medieval Slavonia. The charter about that, issued in the year 1218, had been taken as unquestionable evidence by all Croatian historians from the late 19th up to the middle of 20th century that members of the Babonići family went on the Fifth Crusade. Due to the fact that that charter is preserved as transumptum in the later charter from 14th century, it was Nada Klaić who first questioned this interpretation of historical events. Nevertheless, there are new evidences and interpretations that actually confirm the possibility that the two members of the Babonići noble family had accompanied King Andrew II of Hungary on his Crusade in the year 1217.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

Znanstvena područja
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