Századok – 2006

TANULMÁNYOK - Kubinyi András: Az 1505-ös rákosi országgyűlés és a szittya ideológia 361

374 KUBINYI ANDRÁS Hungary as the bulwark of Christianity, and of the Schytian origin of the Hungarians. Yet the decision itself is not identical to the law that was edicted by the diet and sanctioned by the king. The text of the latter has not survived in the original form, but its content can be reconstructed. It did contain the demand to elect a national king, which is explained by the serious illness of the king. Wladislaw II then only had a daughter, and there seemed to be no hope of further offspring. In terms of the peace of Pozsony (1491) the throne would then be inherited by the Habsburgs. The greatest landowner of the kingdom, János Szapolyai, wanted to be king himself, and therefore considered marrying the king's daughter, thereby thwarting the aspirations of Maximilian of Habsburg. The latter, however, was ready to secure his rights by the force of arms, and talked the diet of Worms in 1505 into setting up an army of 1000 cavalry and 4000 foot in order to occupy Hungary. This menace, hovewer, united the Hungarian political community around the notion of a national king. The decision and its ideological apparatus, before all the Schytian, that is, Hunnish, origin of the Hungarians was the work of the great lawyer, István Werbőczy. The aim of the text was merely to prompt resistance, and its later importance was due to the double election of 1526. The Austro-Hungarian war did break out in 1506, but was soon ended by the birth of a son to Wladislaw during the summer of that year.