Johann Corvinus

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Johann Corvinus (also Jonannes Corvinus ; Croatian Ivaniš Korvin , Hungarian János Corvin , Czech Jánoš Korvín ; born April 2, 1473 in Buda ; † October 12, 1504 in Krapina ) was Count of Hunyadi , Ban of Croatia and Slavonia and Duke of Slavonia , Troppau , Leobschütz , Glogau and Liptau .

Origin and family

Johann came from an illegitimate relationship between the Hungarian and Bohemian (counter) king Matthias Corvinus and the bourgeois daughter Barbara Edelpöck († March 9, 1495) from Stein / Donau. He was his only offspring, since both marriages had remained childless.

In 1496 Johann married the then sixteen-year-old Croatian nobleman Beatrice de Frangepan (1480-1510). Children came from marriage

  • Elisabeth (1496–1508) and
  • Christoph (1499–1505), with whom the house of Hunyadi-Corvinus went out in the male line, and
  • Matthias (1504-1505).

Life

After King Matthias Corvinus tried in vain to secure the succession as King of Hungary for his only but illegitimate son Johann, he procured him other influential positions and territories. In 1481 he appointed the then eight-year-old Johann Count of Hunyadi and Duke of Liptov. As early as 1477, before the Peace of Olomouc , Matthias intended to transfer the Duchy of Glogau to Johann , which had been a fiefdom of the Crown of Bohemia since 1331 . Because of the Glogau succession dispute , he was only able to implement this plan in 1488 after Duke Johann II was deposed .

Engagement picture from 1486

After the death of Duke Przemislaus III. In 1484 Matthias appropriated the Duchy of Tost and in 1485 the Duchy of Opava , which Viktorin von Podebrady had to give him in exchange for some castles in Slavonia. He gave both to his son Johann. The Duchy of Leobschütz , whose last Duke Johann II died around 1485, first moved in Matthias Corvinus as a settled fiefdom and then also transferred it to his son Johann.

After the death of King Matthias in 1490, Johann was unable to defend the property that his father had collected for him. He had to hand over all of the Silesian acquisitions except for the Duchy of Opava, which Viktorin von Podebrady had hoped for in vain to return. In the struggle for the Hungarian throne between the Jagiellonian brothers Vladislav II and Johann Albrecht and the Habsburg Maximilian I , he was completely eliminated. As the Bohemian sovereign, King Vladislav II transferred the Duchy of Glogau to his brother Johann Albrecht as a pledge in 1491 as compensation for letting him precede him in the election of a king in Hungary. Even after Johann Albrecht 1498 Glogau to King Vladislav II had returned., It has not been restituted to John Corvinus, but as a completed fief confiscated for the crown of Bohemia and a year later the youngest brother of Vladislav II., The Lithuanian Grand Duke Sigismund I , in turn, awarded as a bohemian fief. In 1501 Johann Corvinus lost the Duchy of Opava to this in a forced exchange with other areas.

The engagement portrait of Johann attributed to Baldassare Estense is in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. Johann died in 1504 at the age of only 31. His widow Beatrice married the Margrave Georg von Brandenburg in 1509 .

literature

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://www.deutsche-biographie.de/register_sfz57258.html
  2. ↑ Entry on Johann Corvinus in the database Gedächtnis des Landes for the history of Lower Austria ( Museum Niederösterreich )
  3. ^ Karl Nehring:  Matthias I. Corvinus. In: New German Biography (NDB). Volume 16, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin 1990, ISBN 3-428-00197-4 , pp. 407-409 ( digitized version ).
  4. ^ Karl Brochardt: Konrad X. von Oels († September 21, 1492) . In: Schlesische Lebensbilder. Volume X, 2010, ISBN 978-3-7686-3508-0 , p. 67.
personal data
SURNAME Johann Corvinus
ALTERNATIVE NAMES John Corvinus; Johann Korvin; János Corvin (Hungarian); Jánoš Korvín (Czech); Ivaniš Korvin (Croatian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Duke of Troppau, Glogau, Leobschütz, Liptau and Slavonia, Ban of Croatia and Slavonia
DATE OF BIRTH April 2, 1473
PLACE OF BIRTH Buda
DATE OF DEATH October 12, 1504
Place of death Krapina