Attila Györkös
Attila GYÖRKÖS (b. 1970), medievalist, Associate Professor at the University of Debrecen, Department of History, Hungary. He studied at the University of Debrecen, and Poitiers, France (Centre des Etudes Supérieures de la Civilisation Médiévale). He earned his PhD degree under co-tutoring in Debrecen and Clermont-Ferrand, France (Centre d’Histoire Espaces et Cultures). His field of research is medieval mendicant orders, and more recently late medieval diplomacy and Franco-Hungarian relations. He submitted his PhD thesis in 2005 and gained a diploma habilitationis at the University of Debrecen in 2016. Author of two books: „Non debent predicare fabulas”. Edition and Commentaries of a 15th c. Exempla Collection from France (2015, in Hungarian and Latin) and A Renaissance Journey. Receptions of Queen Anne de Foix in Northern Italy and Hungary in 1502 (2016, in Hungarian and French).
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ses épisodes, à savoir celui des ambassades françaises de l’année 1506 travaillant en Europe centrale, restait mal connu.
ses épisodes, à savoir celui des ambassades françaises de l’année 1506 travaillant en Europe centrale, restait mal connu.
So, when after hard and slow negotiations an alliance treaty was born in 1500 between the rulers of France, Bohemia–Hungary and Poland, and when two years later the middle aged (46 years old), but childless Wladislas Jagiellon, King of Bohemia and Hungary married Anne de Foix, a young countess from the collateral branch of the Valois and Briton dynasties, new opportunities were opened towards the diplomatic relations of France and Central Europe. A long-term personal contact was established between these dynasties.
All historical evidence show that, from this moment, the Valois kings (Louis XII or Francis I) considered the Jagiellonian-ruled monarchies as their closest eastern allies. They were to be disappointed.
In this present paper, I am investigating how Central-Europe was misunderstood or how their contemporary problems were underestimated by the French: the pre-dominance of the Turkish threat, the growing influence of the Habsburgs, or the importance of Venice led the French diplomacy toward a mirage and unsuccessful policy in this area. The “family affairs” were overridden by geopolitical realities.