Századok – 2009

TANULMÁNYOK - Bárány Attila: Zsigmond király angliai látogatása II/319

compromise, an inevitable bypass amidst his efforts to end the schism. In return for his aid king Hemy V and the English natio faithfully supported Sigismund, helping him to check the Latin nations and have a new pope elected. The treaty was thus rather a modern political cooperation based on mutual interests than a traditional medieval military alliance. The king of England had presumably no difficulties in realising that the ruler of Germany would not necessarily send considerable armies to support the English in their war against France. Contemporary English sources refer commonly to the praises of king Sigismund and of members of his Hungarian entourage of „blessed England". Several memoirs and diaries, already written in the middle English idiom, speak about the king travelling through the country and uttering words of admiration about its „noble and worthy people". The study also offers a selection of such texts.