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Kozák develops by suggesting that a chapel dedicated to St Catherine may have been founded by Bishop Imre Cudar (1377-84) and his brother Peter, following their return from Paris in 1374, where they had taken part in the negotiations that had led to the engagement of Louis Г s daughter Catherine to Louis of Orleans, son of Charles V of France. 8 Kozák stops, however, at suggesting that the figure of St Catherine herself dates from this period. This is, nevertheless, a possibility to which we will be returning in due course. Kozák's suggestion that the figure may have came from the general area of the deanery chapel may be discounted, at least in the way he perceived it, owing to the fact that he was under the misapprehension that the chapel in question lay to the north of the cathedral, rather than off the southern aisle of the nave, which is where Détshy had already located it using the documentary evidence. 9 The composition of the rubble in which the remains of the figure of St Catherine were found, which was used to shore up the western wall of the castle during the construction of the Dobó Bastion in 1552, contained yellowy sandstone pier fragments, which Kozák himself describes as being characteristic of the details of the Late Gothic chancel, 10 that Détshy had already noted had become little more than a source of building material for the defences required to fend off the Turks. 11 That Kozák himself didn't conclude that the figure of St Catherine came from the chancel is explained by his preference for the hypothesis that the above-mentioned fragments came instead from the deanery chapel, which was so damaged during the siege of 1552, that it wasn't rebuilt and its remains likewise used to strengthen the western defences of the castle. 12 The Late Gothic chancel referred to above was under construction during the episcopacy of Orbán (Dóczy) Nagylucsei (1486-92), 13 and replaced that started by Bishop Miklós Dörögdi (1330-1361) during the 1330s, which may still have been under construction as late as 1372. 14 If the figure of St Catherine originated 8 KOZÁK Károly 1989-90. 352. 9 KOZÁK Károly 1989-1990. 355. (footnote). DÉTSHY Mihály 1964. 9 had however already provided convincing evidence that the Chapel of the Blessed Virgin built by Bishop Rozgonyi had in fact been situated to the south of the nave. NAGY Géza Balázs 2000. 48 challenges Détshy's assertion that the chapel lay off the eastern end of the aisle, adjacent to the chancel, saying that it lay off the westernmost bay of the southern aisle. 10 KOZÁK Károly in: ВЕКЕ László-MAROSI Ernő-WEHLI Tünde 1987. vol. 1. 300. 11 DÉTSHY Mihály 1964. 7-9. 12 KOZÁK Károly 1989-90. 354. 13 CSEMEGI József 1935. 65-71.; DÉTSHY Mihály 1964. 2.; SUGÁR István 1984. 187. 14 We have two papal bulls dating from 1347 and 1372. MAROSI Ernó' in: MAROSI Ernő-TÓTH Melinda-VARGA Lívia (eds) 1982. 56 leaves open the possibility that the chancel was started during the episcopacy of Dörögdi's predecessor Csanád Telegdi (1322-1330).; SUGÁR István 1984. 118 uses the bull issued by Gregory XI in 1372 as evidence that the chancel had not yet been completed. 767
