Novák Ádám (szerk.): Fontes Memoriae Hungariae III. Varsóban őrzött magyar vonatkozású oklevelek, 1439–1489. Közreadja: Novák Ádám, Tóth Orsolya és Tóth Péter (Debrecen, 2019)
Sobiesław Szybkowski: Polish-Hungarian Relations between 1437 and 1490. A Short Introduction
XIV was broken.42 It needs to be emphasized here that many prominent members of the Polish royal council often travelled to Hungary to visit Vladislaus III and accompanied him there for a long time. In the years between 1440 and 1444 Jan Taszka of Koniecpol, Chancellor of the Kingdom of Poland, and Piotr Woda of Szczekociny, Vice-Chancellor, were frequent guests of Vladislaus III. However, they did not participate in the battle of Varna.43 The aid provided for Hungary by the Kingdom of Poland during its conflict with the Ottoman Empire was never as significant as both Vladislaus III and his Hungarian subjects wished. The Polish knights who fought for their king during the civil war (1440-1442) and later in the battles against the Turks were either volunteers or mercenaries. Due to the costs incurred to support the knights, Vladislaus III pledged a significant part of his crown lands in Poland.44 Neither the Polish gentry, nor the Polish political elites agreed to bear further financial and military burden. It seems that support from Poland was more significant during the civil war waged against Elisabeth of Luxemburg than in the fights against the Turks.45 Moreover, the two deputies and the royal council could not handle the task of governing the country when the king was away dealing with problems in Hungary. As a result, from the beginning of spring 1444, the prominent Polish advisers were calling on Vladislaus III to return to Poland. The political and military situation in Hungary, and the particularism of the Kingdom of Poland made it impossible for the Poles to return Spiš to the Hungarians unconditionally, which was one of the terms on which Vladislaus III had been elected king of Hungary. When it comes to the relations between Hungary and Poland, a positive outcome of the short-term personal union was the suspension of the conflict related to the Polish supremacy over Moldavia. Hungarians did not raise this matter in the period between 1440 and 1444.46 On the other hand, in 1440 the Kingdom of Poland focused on securing the Hungarian crown for Vladislaus III, as a result of which the Kingdom of Bohemia, the other kingdom left behind by Albert, accepted the succession of Ladislaus the Posthumous, although he did not actually take the Czech throne until 1444. 47 42 Błaszczyk, 2007. 755–773., 775–792. 43 Zawitkowska, 2005. 179–200, 392–409. 44 Sepiał, Marcin: Zastaw na dobrach ziemskich i dochodach królewskich w okresie panowania Władysława III Warneńczyka na Węgrzech (1440–1444). Zeszyty Naukowe Uniwersytetu Jagiel lońskiego. Prace Historyczne 125. (1998). 35–48. 45 Kurtyka, 1997. 326–327. 46 CEXV, Vol. I. Nr. 121.; Czamańska, 1996. 99–103.; Kurtyka, 1997. 327., 329.; Baczkowski, 2006. 68–70.; Olejnik, 2008. 193.; Dąbrowski, 2014. 152–153.; Latocha, 2015. 95–99.; Sochacka, 2016. 168–171. 47 Heck, 1964. 196–247.; Biskup, 1982A. 413.
