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Exhibitions > Permanent exhibitions > History of Hungary > King Zsigmond and the Hunyadis

	History of Hungary from the foundation of the state to 1990 Middle Ages
	Age of Arpads
	Century of the Anjou rulers
	King Zsigmond and the Hunyadis
	Villages and towns in the second half of the 15th century and at the beginning of the 16th century
	The Age of Matthias Hunyadi, the Jagielloes
	The Turkish Age
	Transylvania and the royal Hungary
	Driving out the Turkish. Aristocratic and urban relics from the 17th century
	Modern and Contemporary History
	Scholar Hungarians who made the 20th century
	On the East-West frontier: History of the people of the Hungarian lands from 400.000 BC to 804 AD
	The coronation mantle
	Medieval and Early Modern Lapidary
	Roman Lapidary

King Zsigmond and the Hunyadis

Room 3

During the lengthy, fifty-year- long rule of Zsigmond of Luxemburg, royal residences (Visegrád, Buda, Pozsony) were built one after another, representing the immense power of the ruler, who was meanwhile declared German Emperor. Zsigmond was striving to influence foreign policy and this, of course, affected Hungarian domestic politics as well. Among the outstanding relics of the Late Gothic era, mainly liturgical objects (altar utensils and dresses) are displayed. Following the death of King Zsigmond, the organisation of the fight against the Turkish menace fell on János Hunyadi, who was elected governor.

Curiosities:

	In 1401, the king was kept confined at Siklós by Hungarian barons. That was the time, when Archbishop János Kanizsai lost his signet-ring now displayed in the exhibition.
	In 1408 King Zsigmond and Queen Borbála Cille founded the Order of Drake, named after the Dragon St. George killed. Among others, the ill-famed Dracula (Vlad Tepes, governor of Wallachia) belonged to the order.
	King Zsigmond as emperor of the Holy Roman Empire deeply respected Saint László. After his death in 1437 in Bohemia, his body was moved to Nagyvárad and buried next to Saint László's grave according his order given out in 1408. His grave was found in 1755 at Nagyvárad.




Pommel of parade saddle