VERBOCZY, ISTVAN STEPHEN

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VERBOCZY, ISTVAN STEPHEN WERBOCZ] (1465?-IS41), Hungarian jurist and statesman, first became known as a scholar and theologian of such

eminence

EMINENCE (Lat. eminentia)

that he was appointed to accompany the emperor Charles V. to Worms, to take up the cudgels against Luther. He began his political career as the

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

of the county of Ugocsa to the diet of 1498, where his eloquence and scholarship had a

great

GREAT

effect in procuring the extension of the privileges of the gentry and the exclusion of all foreign competitors for the Hungarian throne in future elections. He was the spokesman and 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

petition

PETITION (Lat. for " seeking " or " praying ")

to the king, that the_ law should be binding upon all the gentry alike, and firmly established in the minds of the people the principle of a national monarchy. The most striking proof of his popularity at this time is the fact that the diet voted him two denarii per hearth for his services in 1505, a circumstance unexampled in Hungarian history. In 1517 Verboczy was appointed the guardian of the infant Louis II., and was sent on a foreign mission to solicit the aid of Christendom against the Turks. On his return he found the strife of partiesfiercer than ever and the whole country in a state of anarchy. At the diet of Hatvan, on the 25th of June 1525, he delivered a reconciliatory oration which so affected the assembly that i' elected him palatine. During the brief time he held that hig: office he unselfishly and courageously endeavoured to serve both king and people by humbling the

pride

of the magnates who were primarily responsible for the dilapidation of the realm. But he was deposed at the following diet, and retired from public life till the 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 jurisprudence, and the result of his labours was the famous Opus tripartitum juris consuetudinarii inclyti regni hungariae, which was the law-book of

Hungary

HUNGARY
HUNGARY (Hungarian Magyarorszdg)

till 1848.
See Arpad

Karolyi

KAROLYI, ALOYS,
COUNT
- COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)
(1825-1889)

, Verboczy's Mission to the Diet of Worms (Hung.; Budapest, 1880) ; Vilmor Fraknoi, Before and after the Catastrophe of Mohdcs (Hung.; Budapest, 1876); ibid., Stephen Werboczi (Hung.; Budapest, 1899). (R. N. B.)

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