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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
deputy of the county of Ugocsa to the diet of 1498, where his eloquence and scholarship had a great
petition 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
Hungary
See Arpad Karolyi
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