Jean Hunyadi

Jean Hunyadi sometimes called Jean Huniade (in Rumanian: Iancu of Hunedoara , in Hungarian: János Hunyadi , in Croatian: Janko Hunjadi , in Serb: СибињанинЈанко/Sibinjanin Janko ) (born v. 1387 - died the August 11th 1456) was a soldier and politician Hungarian of the 15th century, general with the service of the king de Hongrie Vladislas I {{er}} Jagellon, then of its successor, the young person Ladislas V '' Posthumous the ''.

Biography

Jean Hunyadi was distinguished from 1440 with 1444 by taking again with the Othoman most of the Balkans, although having failed in front of Varna.

In 1446, it was indicated as regent of the Royaume of Hungary, during the minority of the young king Ladislas V.

Entered in Serbia in September 1448, the army of crossed of Jean Hunyadi is overcome by the sultan Murat II with the Second battle of Kosovo (18 - October 19th), where the army of Gjergj Kastriot Skanderbeg had not been able to join it. The Serbia is definitively occupied. Hunyadi is made prisoner by the Serb despot Đurađ Branković, which releases it against a ransom of: 100000 guilders, restitution of its fields confiscated in Hungary and engagement of the oldest son of Jean Hunyadi, Lázló, with Elisabeth, girl of Catherine Branković and Ulrich de Cillei.

With return in Hungary, it reinforced defenses of the country then, being withdrawn of regency, supported the candidature of Ladislas for the throne. It victoriously defended Belgrade in 1456 and pushed back the Turks until in Bulgaria.

Montaigne refers to the Hungarian general in the Tests (II, 29) under the name of Huniade :

A young Turkish lord, having faict one announced feat of arms of its person, with the veuë of both battailles, of Amurath and Huniade, swift to be given, enquis by Amurath, which it avoit, in so great youth and inexperience (because it estoit the first war that it eust veu), filled of a so generous strength of courage, respondit, that it avoit have for sovereign tutor of valiancy a lievre.

In the same way, Antoine-Henri de Bérault-Bercastel, in its Histoire of the church (1809) evokes the role of Jean Hunyadi in the victory of 1456:

“Three of the same men name, and of quite different state, knowledge Jean de Carvajal, cardinal - Legate, Jean Huniade, general of the king de Hongrie, and Jean de Capistran, religious franciscain, were the instruments which in the hand of God were also useful, each one in its manner, to confuse the Moslem arrogance. Carvajal, skilful legate, prelate of an eminent piety, man of a specific courage to any kind of functions, helped by Capistran, powerful in works and words, gathered an army of approximately forty thousand combatants, but without experiment and fame, drawn with haste from bottom people, without balance, almost without weapons and discipline, such finally that it was important, not to ignore in their victory the work of the Almighty. Huniade also put in shift a rather many army, but which, except for the general, if accustomed to triumph over the Turks, was hardly worth better than the first, and than the officers of mark feared or scorned D to accompany. ”

It had two wire, Ladislas Hunyadi and Mathias Corvin, which was elected king of Hungary.

Jean Hunyadi died little of time after his victory of Belgrade, the August 11th 1456.

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