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VERBOCZY, ISTVAN STEPHEN

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VERBOCZY, ISTVAN See also:STEPHEN WERBOCZ] (1465?-IS41), Hungarian jurist and statesman, first became known as a See also:scholar and theologian of such See also:eminence that he was appointed to accompany the See also:emperor See also:Charles V. to See also:Worms, to take up the cudgels against See also:Luther. He began his See also:political career as the See also:deputy of the See also:county of Ugocsa to the See also:diet of 1498, where his eloquence and scholarship had a See also:great effect in procuring the See also:extension of the privileges of the gentry and the exclusion of all See also:foreign competitors for the Hungarian See also:throne in future elections. He was the spokesman and See also:leader of the gentry against the magnates and prelates at the diets of 1500, 1501 and 1505. At the last diet he insisted, in his See also:petition to the See also:king, that the_ See also:law should be binding upon all the gentry alike, and firmly established in the minds of the See also:people the principle of a See also:national See also:monarchy. The most striking See also:proof of his popularity at this See also:time is the fact that the diet voted him two denarii per See also:hearth for his services in 1505, a circumstance unexampled in Hungarian See also:history. In 1517 Verboczy was appointed the See also:guardian of the See also:infant See also:Louis II., and was sent on a foreign See also:mission to solicit the aid of Christendom against the See also:Turks. On his return he found the strife of partiesfiercer than ever and the whole See also:country in a See also:state of anarchy. At the diet of Hatvan, on the 25th of See also:June 1525, he delivered a reconciliatory oration which so affected the See also:assembly that i' elected him See also:palatine. During the brief time he held that hig: See also:office he unselfishly and courageously endeavoured to serve both king and people by humbling the See also:pride of the magnates who were primarily responsible for the See also:dilapidation of the See also:realm. But he was deposed at the following diet, and retired from public See also:life till the See also:election of Janos Zapolya, who realized his theory of a national king and from whom he accepted the chancellorship. He now devoted himself entirely to the study of See also:jurisprudence, and the result of his labours was the famous See also:Opus tripartitum See also:juris consuetudinarii inclyti regni hungariae, which was the law-See also:book of See also:Hungary till 1848. See Arpad See also:Karolyi, Verboczy's Mission to the Diet of Worms (Hung.; See also:Budapest, 1880) ; Vilmor Fraknoi, Before and after the See also:Catastrophe of Mohdcs (Hung.; Budapest, 1876); ibid., Stephen Werboczi (Hung.; Budapest, 1899).

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