John Corvinus
John Corvinus (also Jonannes Corvinus, Hungarian János Corvin, Czech Jánoš Korvin, croatian Ivaniš Korvin; * April 2, 1473 in Buda, † October 12, 1504 in Krapina ) was Count Hunyadi, Ban of Croatia and Slavonia and Duke of Slavonia, Opava, Leobschutz, Glogau and Liptau.
Origin and family
Johann came from an illegitimate relationship of Hungarian and Bohemian (counter ) King Matthias Corvinus with civil daughter Barbara Edelpöck († March 9, 1495 ) from stone / Danube. He was the only descendant, as his two marriages were childless.
1496, Johann married to the then sixteen -year-old Croatian nobles Beatrice de Frangepan ( 1480-1510 ). The couple had children
- Elisabeth (1496-1508) and
- Christoph (1499-1505), with which the house Hunyadi Corvinus became extinct in the male line.
Life
After King Matthias Corvinus tried in vain to secure the succession as king of Hungary for his single, but extramarital son, John, he gave him other influential positions and areas. 1481 he appointed the then eight- year-old Johann Earl of Hunyadi and Duke of Liptau. Already in 1477, before the Peace of Olomouc, Matthias, Johann intention to transfer the duchy of Glogau, which was a fief of the crown of Bohemia since 1331. Because of Glogau succession dispute he was able to realize this plan only in 1488 after the deposition of Duke John II.
After the death of the Duke Przemislaus III. 1484 appropriated to Matthias the Duchy Tost and the Duchy of Opava in 1485, which had to issue against some castles in Slavonia him Viktorin of Podiebrad in exchange. Both he transferred to his son Johann. The Duchy Leobschutz, the last Duke John II died in 1485, Matthias Corvinus moved first one as a completed feudal and then transferred it to his son, also John.
After the death of King Matthias 1490 failed Johann to defend his father gathered him for possession. From the Silesian acquisitions he had to give up all but the Duchy of Opava, on its return to Viktorin of Podiebrad made in vain hopes. In the fight for the Hungarian throne, which took place between the Jagiellon brothers Vladislav II and Johann Albrecht and the Habsburg Maximilian I, he was completely eliminated. As Bohemian ruler rendered King Vladislav II in 1491, the Duchy of Glogau mortgage as his brother Johann Albrecht as compensation for that he gave him the precedence in the royal election in Hungary. Even after Johann Albrecht 1498 Glogau to King Vladislav II returned, it was not restituted to John Corvinus, but collected as a completed fief of the crown of Bohemia, and a year later the youngest brother of Vladislav II, the Lithuanian Grand Duke Sigismund I turn as Bohemian fief awarded. These lost John Corvinus in 1501 in a forced exchange for other territories and the Duchy of Opava.
The Baldassare Estense attributed Verlöbnisbildnis Johanns is located in the Alte Pinakothek in Munich. John died in 1504 at the age of only 31 years. His widow, Beatrice married in 1509 with the Margrave George of Brandenburg.