Zsigmond király 1416-os angliai kísérete
The Entourage of King Sigismund in his 1416 England Visit

Summary/Abstract: The paper seeks to explore the members of the royal entourage during King Sigismund of Hungary’s visit to England at the court of King Henry V in London, Canterbury and Leeds Castle (Kent) in 1416. Sigismund was escorted by a great number of his Konstanz retinue to negotiate the anti-French Canterbury treaty with the king of England. The royal escort of a few hundreds is first seen through contemporary sources (Thomas Elmham: Vita Henrici Quinti; The Translator of Livius: First English Life of king Henry the Fifth; Robert Redmayne: Vita Henrici Quinti; Gregory’s Chronicle), several even mentioning some court compatriots by name (e. g. Palatine Miklós Garai), then the study investigates the circles of participants through archival sources, donation (e. g. ius gladii or coat-of-arms giving) charters for services in Anglie, or those issued by the King’s chancery while in England (or, at the following talks with Henry V and the Duke of Burgundy in Calais, then under the English crown in September-October 1416). Royal diplomatic correspondence with the synod of Konstanz or with the Reichstag as well as safe conducts are also examined when reporting names of knights, or relators of the Sigismundian court in royal service. Indirect evidence for a stay in England is given by private letters or papal correspondence. The research was to start out from the list of the entourage who attended the Aachen coronation of Sigismund and were at Konstanz. The greatest of the inner circle of the retinue who are proved to have been in England are, for example, István Bátori, the Pálóci-brothers, János Perényi.

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