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Matthias Corvinus ' court historian Antonio Bonfini flattered his king by tracing the family's ancestry to the Roman gens Corvina, or Valeriana, while adding: " for this man was indeed born of a Romanian father and a Hungarian mother " A contemporary Hungarian historian Johannes de Thurocz, similarly flattering his king, wrote in the Chronicle of the Hungarians ( Chronica Hungarorum ) that the Hunyadi family was of Hunnic origin, even calling Matthias Corvinus the " Second Attila ".
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Matthias and Corvinus
Regarded as a capable soldier by the emperor, Albert ( in 1475 ) took a prominent part in the campaign against Charles the Bold, duke of Burgundy, and in 1487 led an expedition against Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary, which failed owing to lack of support on the part of the emperor.
* 1467 – Stephen III of Moldavia defeats Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, with the latter being injured thrice, at the Battle of Baia.
* 1443 – Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, King of Hungary and Croatia ( d. 1490 )
Despite those efforts, he failed to gain control over Hungary and Bohemia in the Bohemian War ( 1468-1478 ) and was even defeated in the Austrian-Hungarian War ( 1477-1488 ) by the Hungarian King Matthias Corvinus in 1485, who managed to maintain residence in Vienna until his death five years later ( see Siege of Vienna ( 1485 )).
) King Matthias Corvinus maintained very modern mercenary-based royal troops, called the Black Army.
Later he went to Buda, and the court of Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, for whom he built an astrolabe, and where he collated Greek manuscripts for a handsome salary.
Toronto: Matthias Corvinus Publishing, 2000.
Nicholas von Tüngen allied himself with the Teutonic Order and with King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
The renaissance king Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
* 1469: Matthias Corvinus of Hungary conquers some parts of Bohemia.
* 1479: Battle of Breadfield, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary defeated the Turks.
* 1485: Matthias Corvinus of Hungary captured Vienna, Frederick III, Holy Roman Emperor ran away
* Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Renaissance ruler ( 1443 – 1490 ).
* January 24 – Matthias I Corvinus becomes king of Hungary.
In 1471, while King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary led a campaign in Bohemia, the Hungarian nobility conspired against him and called the thirteen years old Casimir to the Kingdom, so he could take over and be crowned.
His many affairs with women led to the birth of several legends, as the one that existed decades later during the reign of the King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary.
It is said that this incident inspired the coat of arms of the Hunyadis, and later also appeared in the coat of arms of Matthias " Corvinus ".
After the death of the absolutist king Matthias Corvinus in 1490, the Hungarian magnates, who did not want another heavy-handed king, procured the accession of Vladislaus II ( reigned 1490 – 1516 ), king of Bohemia, because of his notorious weakness: he was known as King Dobže, or Dobzse in Hungarian orthography ( meaning “ Good ” or, loosely, “ OK ”) from his habit of accepting without question every petition and document laid before him .< ref name =" britannica1 ">
Aided by King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary, Jan of Żagań invaded Brandenburg, and the Pomeranians seized the opportunity to revolt.
* April 6 – King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary ( b. 1443 )
* King Matthias Corvinus founds the first university in Slovakia, the Universitas Istropolitana in Bratislava.
* February 23 – Matthias Corvinus of Hungary ( d. 1490 )
Five were candidates pressed by kings, placating respectively James II of Cyprus, Edward IV of England, Louis XI of France, Matthias Corvinus of Hungary and Ferdinand I of Naples ; one was the able administrator of the Franciscans ; and the last two elevated his old tutor and a first cardinal-nephew.
In the Jagellonian era ( 1490 – 1526 ) only two dukes did not belong to the royal dynasty: John Corvin ( the illegitimate son of Matthias Corvinus ) and Lőrinc Újlaki ( whose father was the king of Bosnia ), and both bore the title as royal dukes.
* 1467-71-Observatory at Oradea, Hungary for Matthias Corvinus
Matthias and court
King Matthias urged Thurzo to bring her to court and two notaries were sent to collect further evidence, but Thurzó successfully convinced the king that such an act would negatively affect the nobility.
The emperor was also able to obtain the support of John George I, Elector of Saxony ; John George's court preacher, Matthias Hoe von Hoenegg, encouraged the emperor to smash Frederick and the Bohemians.
In 1607, upon recommendation by his brother-in-law Zierotin and another relative Adam of Waldstein, often mistakenly referred to as his uncle, Wallenstein was made chamberlain at the court of Matthias, and later also chamberlain of archdukes Ferdinand and Maximilian.
But neither the pope nor the Venetians would accept such a transfer, and the negotiations on this subject greatly embittered Matthias against the Papal court.
The most important humanists living in Matthias ' court were Antonio Bonfini, Galeotto Marzio, Pietro Ranzano, Marsilio Ficino, Aurelio Lippo Brandolini and the Hungarian poet Janus Pannonius.
In 1601 he was made an advisor to the court of Rudolf and his successor Matthias and part of the imperial chambers.
* Matthias Grünberg (* 1961 ), president of Sozialgericht court of law Dresden
The younger Diebold was a somewhat scandalous figure, not unlike his father Hans, brother to the elder Diebold, an adventurer who had sought his fortune at the court of Matthias Corvinus, and returned destitute in 1488.
Hans took after his father and went adventuring, visiting the court of Matthias Corvinus in Vienna together with the chronicler Melchior Russ in 1488 from where they both returned destitute.
In Austria, Frederick was in conflict first with his brother Albert and then faced the pressure of Matthias Corvinus, who even drove him from Vienna and forced Frederick's court to assume an itinerant lifestyle.
Antonio Bonfini ( Latin variant: Antonius Bonfinius ) ( 1434 – 1503 ) was an Italian humanist and poet who spent the last years of his career as a court historian in Hungary with King Matthias Corvinus .< ref >
Matthias and historian
Today Peter is a historian, Lars is an artist, and Matthias is an actor.
Church historian Matthias Schuler, commenting on Boniface's failure to have church property returned to the church, proposes that the time was not yet ripe for Carloman to re-appropriate those properties, which had often been handed ( by way of church offices ) to various noblemen by his father, Charles Martel, to appease them and strengthen their loyalty.
Their courts, which were similar to the royal courts of Buda and Visegrád, were visited by such kings, scientists, and artists as Louis the Great, Sigismund of Luxembourg, King Matthias Corvinus, Galeotto Marzio, Regiomontanus, the famous astronomer Márton Ilkus and Georg Peuerbach, Pier Paolo Vergerio and Antonio Bonfini, King Matthias ’ historian, who, in his work praises the constructive work of János Vitéz, King Matthias ’ educator.
Some historian speculate that Matthias of Arras may be credited with being the architect, but he had already died by 1352.
The historian Jean Hughes Raber defined a second wave of the Beguine Movement occurring in the 17th century, when it was supported by Archbishop Matthias Hovius.
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