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JANOS HUNYAIDI (c. 1387-1456)

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 955 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUNYAIDI (c. 1387-1456)  , Hungarian statesman and See also:warrior, was the son of Vojk, a Magyarized Vlach who married See also:Elizabeth Morzsinay . He derived his See also:family name from the small See also:estate of Hunyad, which came into his See also:father's See also:possession in 1409 . The later epithet See also:Corvinus, adopted by his son See also:Matthias, was doubtless derived from another See also:property, See also:Piatra da Corvo or See also:Raven's See also:Rock . He has sometimes been confounded with an See also:elder See also:brother who died fighting for See also:Hungary about 1440 . While still a youth, he entered the service of See also:King See also:Sigismund, who appreciated his qualities and borrowed See also:money from him; he accompanied that monarch to See also:Frankfort in his quest for the imperial See also:crown in 1410; took See also:part in the Hussite See also:War in 1420, and in 1437 drove the See also:Turks from See also:Semendria . For these services he got numerous estates and a seat in the royal See also:council . In 1438 King See also:Albert II. made him See also:ban of Szoreny, the See also:district lying between the Aluta and the See also:Danube, a most dangerous dignity entailing See also:constant warfare with the Turks . On the sudden See also:death of Albert in 1439, See also:Hunyadi, feeling acutely that the situation demanded a warrior-king on the See also:throne of St See also:Stephen, See also:lent the whole See also:weight of his See also:influence to the candidature of the See also:young See also:Polish king See also:Wladislaus III . (1440), and thus came into collision with the powerful Cilleis, the See also:chief supporters of Albert's widow Elizabeth and her to See also:Aberdeen, and on the 19th of See also:March 1607 he was summoned before the privy council . See also:Huntly thereupon went to See also:England and appealed to See also:James himself . He was excommunicated in 16o8, and imprisoned in See also:Stirling See also:Castle till the loth of See also:December 16ro, when he signed again the See also:confession of faith . Accused of Romanist intrigues in 1616, he was ordered once more to sub-See also:scribe the confession, which this See also:time he refused to do; imprisoned at See also:Edinburgh, he was liberated by James's See also:order on the 18th of See also:June, and having joined the See also:court in See also:London was absolved from See also:excommunication by See also:Abbot, See also:archbishop of See also:Canterbury; which See also:absolution, after some heartburnings at the archbishop's interference, and after a further subscription to the confession by Huntly, was confirmed by the See also:Kirk .

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accession of See also:Charles I . Huntly lost much of his influence at court . He was deprived in 1630 of his heritable sheriffships of Aberdeen and See also:Inverness . The same See also:year a See also:feud See also:broke out between the Crichtons and Gordons, in the course of which Huntly's second son, See also:Lord Melgum, was burnt to death either by treachery or by See also:accident, while being entertained in the See also:house of James See also:Crichton of Frendraught . For the ravaging of the lands of the Crichtons Huntly was held responsible, and having been summoned before the privy council in 1635 he was imprisoned in Edinburgh Castle from December till June 1636 . He See also:left his confinement with shattered See also:health, and died at See also:Dundee while on his See also:journey to Strathbogie on the 13th of June 1636, after declaring himself a See also:Roman See also:Catholic .

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