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LAKATOS BÁLINT: A tatai országgyűlés és diplomáciai háttere (1508-1510)

an aid of 30.000 ducats to Hungary

7 each year for the maintenance of the defense network of border fortresses against the Turks. Although, in principle the League intended to "drive the Turkish infidelity away", it failed to offer real solutions for Hungary 's fundamental problem, the threat of the Turks. Thus the Hungarian political elite had to balance in the European diplomacy to ensure the country's latitude in foreign affairs. The policy of temporization and irresolution, which Vilmos Eraknói also disapproved of, was mainly due to that. In spring 1509, coinciding with the victories in Italy (Agnadello, 14 May 1509) emperor Maximilian I and Pope Julius II were putting pressure on Hungarian and Czech king Vladislas II who, at that time, was in Prague. At last, the king ordered the Hungarian nobles to gather in Buda to discuss the matter. The Hungarian elite were diverse concerning a possible entry into the League. Tamás Bakócz, archbishop of Esztergom, for instance, supported Venice, while chancellor György Szatmári or palatine Imre Perényi, on the other hand, were anti-Venice. The situation was deteriorated by the years-long government crisis of two provinces bordering Venice: Slavonia and Croatia. The nobles, therefore, only resolved to discuss the matter for a second time, once the monarch returned. The king summoned the parliament for 12 March 1510 to Esztergom. Being afraid of the League's possible gain of advantage, instead of diplomat Vincenzo Guidoto the Venetian Republic sent their secretary Pietro Pasqualigo to Hungary. Pasqualigo's reports between 1509 and 1512 are the primary

7 sources of information on the topic. In February 1510, being afraid of the French victories in the previous year, pope Julius II absolved the interdict he declared on Venice and turned against the League. Meanwhile, in the Reichstag of the Holy Roman Empire began in Augsburg to vote for the necessary amount of money and soldiers for Emperor Maximilian's planned campaign in 1510. Louis d'Hallewin, the delegate of the French king also assisted the Emperor in convincing the orders of the empire but the Papal nuncio Achilles de Grassis, according to the new Papal policy, managed to undermine the idea of the war. Meanwhile, due to the king's delay, the Esztergom diet only started on 21 March. In principle they supported the Pope's intention intention against the Turks and declared to leave the decision making to the parliamentary session of 24 June. The news about the Papal decision came after the closure of the diet. Pasqualgo was received at an audience in Esztergom subsequently on 17 May 1510. Because of the plague threat the royal court moved to Tata on 23 May and stayed until 10 August. The foreign diplomats included Pietro Pasqualigo, nuncio Achilles de Grassis, the French delegate Louis d'Hallewin, the 64