A „mohó farkas” utóda. Egy Kőszegi Habsburg szolgálatban
The Heir of the „Greedy Wolf”: A Kőszegi in the Service of the Habsburg Dukes

Summary/Abstract: The name of count (comes) Iban von Bernstein sounds familiar in both Hungarian and Austrian medieval studies. Yet opinions diverge as to the ties of kinship that linked the count, who stood in the service of the Habsburg dukes from 1339 to 1382, to the famous oligarch, palatine János/ Iván Kőszegi, a person notorious in Austrian, Styrian and Hungarian sources alike. The present paper, alongside making an attempt to solve this problem, also explores the circumstances in which Iban was turned into an infidel and broke with the king of Hungary, and his activities in his new homeland. Moreover, it seeks an answer to the question of what traditions for an alliance with the Habsburg dukes were already at hand within the Kőszegi family, owning extensive lands along the western border of the Hungarian Kingdom, and among the direct ancestors of Iban himself

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