Diplomáciai levelezés III. Edvárd és Nagy Lajos között

Abstract

After death of Robert the Wise, Johanna, his granddaughter, succeeded the throne of the Kingdom of Naples. According to the testament of King Robert, Prince Andrew, Johanna's husband, was excluded from the royal and political power in Naples. Prince Andrew claimed the crown of Naples and the royal political power too. Andrew's brother, Louis the Great king of Hungary and his family, the Hungarian Anjou Dynasty supported his political ambition. Assassinating Prince Andrew, Johanna and her party took the royal power in the kingdom, but Louis the Great, king of Hungary claimed the crown of Naples from the pope, overlord in the kingdom of Naples. In this political situation, Edward III, king of England sent three letters to Louis the Great, king of Hungary, and the copies of these letters survived, they were published by Thomas Rymer in his Foedera, but Louis' letters containing the answers to Edward were lost. It appeared from Edward's letters that, friendly terms had been formed between Edward and Louis. On the basis of Edward's letters and other sources, I suppose, that the king of England formed an alliance with king of Hungary. Edward demanded the throne of France, and Louis claimed the Kingdom of Naples from the pope. In the hundred years war, kings of France allied with the popes in Avignon, who were overlords in the kingdom of Naples. The king of England entered into an alliance with king of Hungary in this political situation.