VALAHII SI DIETA DE LA RÁKOS (1505). CONSIDERAłII ASUPRA SFÂRSITULUI EPOCII HUNIADE
THE WALLACHIANS AND THE DIET OF RÁKOS (1505) – AN ANALYSIS OF THE END OF THE RULE OF THE HUNYADS

Summary/Abstract: One year after the death of John Corvin (1473-1504) the Diet was summoned at Rákos in October 1505. The illegitimate son and envisaged heir of Matthew Corvin (1458-1490), Wladyslaw II Jagiello (1490-1526) almost lost the throne. The Diet and John Zápolya, future Voivode of Transylvania (1510-1526) and King of Hungary (1526-1540), had asked for Wladyslaw II to abdicate. Moreover, the Treaty of Bratislava (1491) was annulled and this displeased Maximilian I of Habsburg, “co-king” of Hungary, who was preparing an invasion of territories east of Vienna. Wladyslaw had to flee to Prague, in his second kingdom. In November 1505, the royal specialist in Hungarian and Wallachian issues, Jan Laski, was terrified by the possibility that the Wallachians inhabiting the Kingdom of Hungary might become allies of Maximilian and. The Jagiellonians could thus lose Hungary by next summer. Laski’s advice was to use the Wallachians against the Hungarians (Zápolya’s ‘nationalists’), who detested them. This turn of events suited 1490 and the struggle for Matthew Corvin’s throne rather than the beginning of the 16th century. This concluded 15 troubled years that were also a time when “the Romanian group” around the king lost its influence.

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