Két díván Budán. I. Rákóczi György erdélyi fejedelem és a magyarországi oszmán hódoltság elitje (1630 1636)
Two divans in Buda. György Rákóczi I. and Elite of Ottoman Hungary (1630–1636)

Summary/Abstract: György Rákóczi I. achieved this result contrary to the fact that as a magnate of the Kingdom of Hungary he had no routine whatsoever in finding his way in the labyrinth of Ottoman politics and it is clear that it took him years to get used to and start managing the system, the logic of which stood quite far from his personality. The prince’s honest dedication to the Protestant cause in the Thirty Years War seemed to be in vain. The peace he had to conclude with the emperor in 1633, as well as his stance for Christian solidarity in the Polish crisis of 1634 alienated from him the pillars of the Transylvanian system of alliances in Ottoman politics one after the other. The Ottoman dignitaries, who were interested in a European war became disinterested in maintaining Rákóczi’s rule, just as well as the Orthodox Christian lobby he faced in the Wallachian and Polish issues, or the influential ambassadors of anti-Habsburg powers at the Sublime Porte. Decisions about rulers of Transylvania were seemingly prepared in Ottoman Hungary, more specifically at the divans at Buda both in 1630 and 1636, but as we have seen, many of the positions presented there were also initiated in Constantinople. The opinions coming from the elite of Ottoman Hungary were important in 1636 only in order to validate and legitimize intentions formulated at the imperial center: the complaints coming from the borderland area found deaf ears at the Sublime Porte if there was no intention there to put pressure on the prince of Transylvania.

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