Oklevelek Aragóniai Beatrix hagyatékából - Magyar vonatkozású források a spanyol katonai lovagrendek iratanyagában
Unpublished Charters from the Legacy of Beatrice of Naples

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this paper is to publish 5 charters that originally belonged to the legacy of Beatrice of Naples, widowed Queen consort of Hungary. The charters were probably moved from Naples to Valencia in the 16th century as a part of the legacy of Fernando of Aragon, Duke of Calabria (1488–1550) and his wife, Germana de Foix (1488/90/92– 1538). This rich collection of manuscripts has survived in the Monastery of the Temple Church of Valencia possessed by the Military Order of Montesa. In the 19th century all archival documents of the monastery were transported to Madrid, so today they can be found in the series „Various papers” in the archival section of the Military Orders in the National Historical Archives of Madrid. These documents were unknown to date. These important primary sources provide the opportunity to reconstruct the process of the marital negotiations between King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary (1458–1490) and Beatrice of Naples in more detail than Albert Berzeviczy did it in 1908 in his biography of Beatrice. One of the aforementioned charters contains a detailed dowry list of Beatrice, which is of overriding importance in terms of any research into the art history of the period. In addition, these charters can make a considerable contribution to reconstructing the history of Beatrice’s legacy after her death in 1508.

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