Házastársi örök szerelem. Nádasdy Tamás és Kanizsai Orsolya levelezése
Eternal Marital Love. Correspondence of Tamás Nádasdy and Orsolya Kanizsai

Summary/Abstract: In 1532, immediately after the death of the last male descendant of the most important landowner family of Hungary, the Kanizsais, the ten-year-old heiress, Orsolya Kanizsai, was engaged to the third most prominent politician of the country, the 34 year old Tamás Nádasdy. It was marriage of convenience, which was the usual, rather the exceptional, case in their historical time period and social circle. Nevertheless, this imposed marriage has developed into the first extensively documented love story of Hungarian cultural history. Nádasdy, who was later elected Nador and became glorious on the battlefield, spent little time with his wife. Thus, their deep love for each other found an expression in their correspondence which covered more than a quarter century. Their caring love for each other and their only child, Ferenc Nádasdy, the later “black bey”, who fought the Turks, remains touching even today. The essay also present the career of Tamás Nádasdy.

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