Századok – 2017
2017 / 2. szám - TANULMÁNYOK - Bácsatyai Dániel: A 13. századi francia–magyar kapcsolatok néhány kérdése
A 13. SZÁZADI FRANCIA–MAGYAR KAPCSOLATOK NÉHÁNY KÉRDÉSE 278 FRANCE AND HUNGARY IN THE 13TH CENTURY: CONTACTS, QUESTIONS AND OBSERVATIONS by Dániel Bácsatyai SUMMARY While it is widely known that the principally French enterprise of the Crusades brought about a considerable migration to the Outremer, it often remains unnoticed that in the same time the medieval Kingdom of Hungary was also a chief target of the French settlers. The heydays of the dynastic, ecclesiastical and cultural relations between Hungary and the Kingdom of France were in the 12–13th centuries. The aim of this study is to illustrate aspects of these links by attempting to resolve certain riddles concerning some remarkable figures of the 13th century. Some of them were French rising to prominence in Hungary (like Queen Yolanda’s cousin Hugo or the Constantinople aristocrat Anseau de Cayeux), others were Hungarians settling in France, such as the historiographer Andreas Ungarus, the emissary of the dukes of Champagne Jacobus de Hungaria, or the mysterious ancestors of the ducal house of Croÿ.
