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194 Tamás Pálosfalvi it by water thanks to the flood21. Nevertheless, Matkó should reward the Italians generously, because they had served him faithfully in the middle of these difficulties. The reason of this apparent contradiction seems to reside in the rapidly deteriorating situation of queen Elisabeth and in the parallel improvement of Wladislaw's chances. By June 1440 the events had taken a clearly unfavourable turn from the voivode's point of view. The queen's partisans proved unable to prevent the Polish king from reaching Buda, where he was solemnly received by palatine Hédervári. The fall of Buda definitively isolated the voivode from the rest of the queen's partisans, and he could no more hope for help from that direction. Moreover, Elisabeth's chief supporter, Ulrich of Cilli fell into the king's captivity and remained there for the rest of the year. Worst of all for Losonci, Matkó Tallóci soon escaped from his detention, quickly recovered his honors and joined again Wladislaw's camp. The voivode seems therefore to have tried to explain away his attack against the chambers of salt and emerge as the protector of Matkó’s agents in Transylvania. His efforts yielded no result, however, for, as we have already seen, the Italian camerarii later lodged a complaint against him at the royal court and he was forced to give them entire satisfaction. Yet by that time he had already lost his office of voivode of Transylvania. On 29 June the Hungarian estates solemnly invalidated the infant Ladislaus's coronation and confirmed once again Wladislaw's election. Although voivode Dezső's positions in Transylvania were not menaced for the time being, he did not dare to appear at Buda, despite Wladislaw's general safe conduct22. After his coronation on 17 July at Székesfehérvár Wladislaw seems to have partially reorganised his government; at least he tried to put his faithful followers in the place of those who had deserted to the queen. The reorganisation could not fail to effect Transylvania, of course: Wladislaw appointed Mihály and László Jakes as the new voivodes of Transylvania23. Mihály had been count of the Szeklers between 1427 and 143824, so it could not be said that he had no governmental experience in the province; yet the family had no extensive possessions in the Transylvanian counties25, and even their only castle, Hodod, was outside Transylvania. Indeed, it is more than questionable that the new voivodes could effectively take possession of their office and occupy the castles that pertained to it. Although our evidence is extremely scarce, none of the newly appointed Ibidem. Wc publish this interesting letter, together with that written by László Jakes, in the ■'endix of , present stuty. le was not among the barons who sealed the charter of 29 June. Cf. Elemér Mályusz, A magyar idi állam Hunyadi korában, Budapest, 1958, p. 31, n. 128. Nor was he present at the coronation of infant Ladislaus, for on 14 May, the day before the ceremony, he issued a charter in his is_. Ivanian castle of Ciceu (Csicsó), cf. Dl. 36.898. ngel, Archontológia (see note 5), I, p. 14. ■ . p. 194. nki, op. cit. (see note 18), V, 1913, passim.
