One Charter from Venetian Archive or how John Corvinus became Noblemen of Venice

U radu se donosi prijepis isprave kojom Republika Svetog Marka proglašava svojim plemićem Ivaniša Korvina, nezakonitog sina kralja Matijaša. Osim toga, daje se i osnovni kontekst tog čina, kao dio njegove karijere na koji je dosad historiografija malo obraćala pažnju. Isprava je tipična za taj period te ju se izdao mletački dužd Agostino Barbarigo 1497. godine.Matthias Corvinus seemingly had various plans for his illegitimate son John Corvinus: from John’s official acknowledgement to his willingness to partition his lands so that John can survive as a monarch. In May 1497, following a year of negotiations, John Corvinus, the husband of Beatrice Frankapan, recently reconciled with the King of the Romans, Maximilian I of Habsburg, and Venice’s “Eastern favourite”, Stephen III of Moldavia, was admitted into the ranks of the elite of the Republic of Saint Mark. Granting of the status of Venetian nobleman was of paramount importance for John, allowing him to rise between the Adriatic and the Danube. The diploma, issued by Doge Agostino Barbarigo, published here for the first time, marked precisely that new beginning for John