Spanyol segítség a török elleni harcban. Adalékok a spanyol–magyar katonai kapcsolatok 16. századi történetéhez
Castilian Support in the Fight Against the Turks. Contributions to the History of the Military Relations Between Spain and Hungary in the 16th Century

Summary/Abstract: Using as pretext a document signed by Emperor Charles in April 1528, ordering a payment to bishop García de Loaysa, of the Council of Indies, for a sum advanced by him to aid the King of Hungary in his struggle against the Turks, we have tried to depict the early Spanish military aid that Ferdinand of Habsburg received in the eve of the siege of Vienna in 1529. The Spanish companies were made of young men like the 700 archers of Medina del Campo. Many were relatives, siblings or children of Comunero rebels that had fought Emperor Charles in Castile between 1520 and 1522, young men without future in the Kingdom that saw in the war against the Turks an opportunity to continue the Spanish Reconquista against Islam. For them, the King of Hungary, was their Spanish Prince, the sole Habsburg grandson of the Catholic Monarchs, Ferdinand of Aragon and Isabella of Castile, that had been born and educated in Spain. They would prove in Vienna their loyalty to King Ferdinand fighting with upmost courage the enemies of Christianity and Western Civilization. Their Crusade was in the Danube and their aim was to vanquish the Ottomans and end their rule in the Hungarian realm. The tragedy of Mohács was similar to that of Guadalete when the last Goth King of Spain, Roderic, died in battle against the Muslims in 711.

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