| Abstract (croatian) | U članku se nastoje cjelovito prikazati glavne smjernice u vezi s povijesnom ulogom
i djelovanjem ugarske i hrvatske kraljice Beatrice Aragonske (posljednja četvrtina
15. stoljeća). Rad je usmjeren na prikaz njezine uloge u vanjskopolitičkim odnosima
Ugarsko-Hrvatskoga Kraljevstva toga vremena te na utjecaj i odjeke Beatricine uloge
u srednjovjekovnim hrvatskim zemljama. Do sada je u historiografiji naglašavana
njezina uloga u vezi s razvojem renesansne kulture na ugarskom dvoru. Na kraljičinu
marginalizaciju početkom 16. stoljeća te povratak u rodnu Italiju presudno je utjecala
nemogućnost da rodi legitimnog nasljednika prijestolja, kako Matijašu Korvinu tako i
Vladislavu II. Jageloviću, te promjena vanjskopolitičkih prioriteta ugarsko-hrvatskog
kralja Vladislava II. na prijelazu 15. u 16. stoljeće. |
| Abstract (english) | Based on published sources and relevant secondary literature, this paper attempts to present a comprehensive overview of the historical role of, and actions
connected to, the Hungarian and Croatian Queen Beatrice of Aragon (she was
queen in the last quarter of the fifteenth century). The bulk of the analysis focuses
on her role in the external political affairs of the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom
at the time. The other part covers her role and activities in connection to the medieval Croatian lands. Until now, historiography focused primarily on her role in
the spread and development of Renaissance culture in the Hungarian court and
its various manifestations throughout the kingdom. One might conclude that the
main reason for the queen’s complete marginalization at the beginning of the
sixteenth century, as well as her ultimate return to her native Italy, was first of all
her inability to produce a legitimate heir to the throne, both for King Matthias
Corvinus and for King Wladyslaw II. The second major reason was the shift in
King Wladyslaw’s foreign policy priorities at the turn of the sixteenth century.
It would be important for Croatian historiography to further research various
modes and forms of contact between the members of the Croatian social elite
and Naples through Queen Beatrice’s mediation. In this respect, the leading
Croatian magnates, namely the Frankapani, played a special role. Thanks to the
queen, the Hungarian-Croatian Kingdom of that time in many occasions found
itself involved, volens-nolens, in the troubled, mutable and often contradictory
mutual relations between the main Italian centres of power, as willing or coerced
allies of the queen’s Neapolitan relatives. However, such an external political
orientation of the kingdom was completely abandoned after 1500. It then became
clear that, in the meantime, the Adriatic had definitively turned into the Golfo di
Venezia and that Naples did not have the necessary forces to alter that situation
in alliance with Hungary and Croatia. King Wladyslaw realized that continued
reliance on the Aragonese was a losing prospect, while at the same time Ottoman
pressure on the kingdom’s south-eastern frontiers mounted and rivalry with the
Habsburgs in Central Europe intensified. Therefore, the king ruthlessly expelled
Beatrice back to her native Italy, with significant papal support. All of this stands
in sharp contrast to the stereotypical popular image of King Wladyslaw as an
indolent and indifferent ruler. |
