The French Beauty and the Turkish BeastDiplomatic Aspects of the Marriage of Vladislas II

Jagiellon (1502)

The Jagiellonians in Europe: Dynastic Diplomacy and ForeignRelations

10-11 April 2015, Debrecen

Attila GYÖRKÖS, PhDgyorkos.attila@arts.unideb.hu

Hungary in Medieval Europe Research GroupMTA–DE Lendület Program

LP2014-13/2014Hungarian Academy of Sciences – University of Debrecen

Representations of Anne de Foix

Master of Litoměřice Altarpiece. Prague, St. Vitus Cathedral (1506-1509)

Pierre Choque. London, British Library, Stowe 584, f. 71v. (1502)

The aims of the Franco-Jagiellonian alliance.Historiography

• Anti-Turkish Crusade:Wenzel G. (1877); Kropf L. (1895); Kosáry D. (1978)

• Anti-Habsburg Coalition:

Fraknói V. (1889); Kubinyi A. (2005)

• Both of them:Kulcsár P. (1981); E. Kovács P. (1990, 2008)

• Italian political affairs:K. Meyer Setton, 1978; F. J. Baumgartner, 1996; D. Le Fur,

2001

Steps of the French Diplomacy toward Central-Europe

• 1499 February. Franco-Venetian alliance• 1499 September. Conquest of Milan.

First resident embassy of Venice in Hungary• 1500 January. Revolt of Lodovico Sforza

Envoy of the French ambassadors toHungary

• 1500 April Reconquest of Milan14 July. French treaty with Wladislas

• 1501 June. Campaign in Naples• 1501 October. Treaty of Trento between the Emperor

and Louis XII

• 1502, 29. September. Marriage of Vladislas and Anne

“I omit now the details of the triumphal reception and humane treatment towards the above-mentioned ambassadors”

„Je lesse le triumphal recueil et humaintrectement faictz la ausdits ambaxadeurs”

In: Chroniques de Louis XII par Jean d’Auton. Ed. René Maulde la Clavière, Paris, 1891. t. II. 215.

“the French ambassadors tried another way to further the cause of the general league, negotiating on the marriage of the king with a French woman...”

„li oratori Francesi, qualli tirano a uno altrocamino cha far liga general; pratichanomaridar il re in una Francese...”

In: I diarii di Marino Sanuto. Venezia 1879-1902. t. III. 381-382. 25 May 1500.

Alliance treaty between France, Hungary and Bohemia (14 July 1500).

Document conservé auxArchives nationales, Paris, J458, 11.