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C. TÓTH NORBERT: Az út Tatáig. Országgyűlések 1510-ben

in the Banat. Although the king had relieved the Bans, they - astoundingly - refused to resign from their office. The Hungarian court did not welcome the seemingly promising collaboration deal warmly. On the one hand there was the 30.000 guldens aid paid by Venice to fund the wars against the Turks and on the other hand - although the final defeat over the Turks seemed possible - the costs of the Turkish wars were bound to increase with the reannexation of Dalmatia. Moreover, the 7-year peace treaty signed with the Sultan in 1503 was slowly coming to an end. The king and his council discussed the option of joining the Cambrai League for one and a half years and eventually it was decided that Hungary would enter the League on 5 July 1510. The decision, however, was far from being easy or fast. The latitude of Hungary and its political elite was severely limited. For them the issue was much more complex. Therefore, the king and the royal council was try ing to balance in politics between the Cambrai League and the Venetian Republic in a way that they, or nor even the commons of Hungary; would notice that Hungary was actually try ing to remain at the current status quo. In other words: the one and half years of negotiations were none other but stonewalling, i.e. to postpone any confession as long as possible, as Hungary neither had money - and consequently - nor any soldiers to play and actual role in the events. The aim of the court was to maintain the Hungarian Kingdom's position of a moderate power with the least possible appropriation. The diets held throughout the year were stages of the series of negotiations. At the first parliamentary session, which had been summoned by king Vladislas (who at that time was in Prague) to Eger on Gregorius-day (12 March), they could not come to a decision. Thus the decision making was postponed to the celebration of John the Baptist (24 June) in Buda. However, for various reasons the dieta eventually did not take place in Buda but in Székesfehérvár and Tata. The nobles gathered in the crowning city and the prelates gathered in Tata. The parties at both places wanted the other party to transpose the negotiations to their place of residence. Eventually the parties agreed that the nobles would depute 40 people to Tata and with them they would carry on with the negotiations concerning the Cambrai League. According to the available sources we can declare that, as opposed to the theories beforehand, there were two parliamentary sessions in 1510: first from 21 March to the end of the month in Esztergom, then from 24 June in Székesfehérvár and between 2 and 5 July in Tata. 28