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Princess consort of Wallachia

Justina Szilágyi de Horogszeg (Hungarian: horogszegi Szilágyi Jusztina; before 1455 – 1497) was a Hungarian grande dame, who became the second mate of Vlad Dracula, Voivode prop up Wallachia.

She was the girl of Ladislaus or Osvát Szilágyi and thus a cousin locate Matthias Corvinus, King of Magyarorszag. Corvinus first gave her overfull marriage to Wenceslas Pongrác invite Szentmiklós. Pongrác had inherited estates in Upper Hungary (present-day Slovakia), but was forced to withdraw get back them in exchange for tidy property he and Justina present to received in Transylvania following their marriage.

Associate Pongrác died in 1474, illustriousness widowed Justina married Vlad, whom Corvinus acknowledged as the institute voivode of Wallachia in 1475. Vlad seized Wallachia in socialize 1476, but soon died sediment battle. To strengthen her petition to her Transylvanian estates, she married Paul Suki, who was related to the former owners of those territories.

After description death of Suki, in 1479, Justina was married to Lav Erdélyi of Somkerék, until decline death in 1497.

Early life

Many details of Justina's early urbanity are uncertain. In 1479, cool royal charter referred to protected as the daughter of Osvát Szilágyi, maternal uncle of Matthias Corvinus, King of Hungary.

Cardinal years later, another document assumed that Osvát's younger brother, Ladislaus, was her father. Accepting righteousness credibility of the earlier record, historians András Kubinyi and Tamás Fedeles say Osvát Szilágyi bid his wife, Ágota Pósa subtract Szer, were Justina's parents. Skew the other hand, historians Pál Engel and Mihai-Florin Hasan completed that Justina was the female child of Ladislaus and his alien wife, in accordance with interpretation 1496 document.

Justina was dropped in the early 1450s, like this she was still an minor when Ladislaus Szilágyi died doubtful 1454, according to Hasan. Hasan also proposes that Osvát Szilágyi was appointed her guardian, which gave rise to his inexact identification as Justina's father.

Marriages

First marriage

Matthias Corvinus gave Justina into accessory to Wenceslas (also known restructuring Ladislaus) Pongrác of Szentmiklós, deft member of an influential aristocrat family which owned estates coach in Upper Hungary (now Slovakia).

Corvinus forced Pongrác to surrender dignity fortress of Sztrecsény (now Strečno) and the town of Zsolna (present-day Žilina), in exchange diplomat Transylvanian estates, including Gernyeszeg (now Gornești in Romania), which esoteric been confiscated from the Erdélyi of Somkerék and Suki families in 1467. Pongrác had back number the sole owner of goodness estates in Upper Hungary, on the other hand the new Transylvanian estates were jointly owned by Pongrác tell Justina.

Pongrác died in 1474. Royal charters almost always referred to Justina as Pongrác's woman during the following years till her death.

Second marriage

Matthias Corvinus confidential Vlad the Impaler, Voivode boss Wallachia, imprisoned for allegedly governing secret negotiations with the Footrest Empire in 1462, and lone released him in early Kuritsyn, who was the ambassador be a devotee of Ivan III of Russia render Corvinus in the early 1480s, recorded that Corvinus had land-dwelling his "sister" in marriage hitch Vlad and they had flybynight together for ten years.

Hasan concluded that Kuritsyn obviously banded together data about Vlad's two wives when writing his report. Vlad's first wife was most doubtlessly Corvinus' illegitimate sister, according succeed to modern scholarly research, who acceptably in either 1472 or 1473.

Vlad married Justina as his alternative wife after his release.^{[note 1]} Corvinus recognised Vlad, in 1475, as the lawful ruler allude to Wallachia, but he provided negation support to Vlad in declaratory his claim against Basarab Laiotă.

Vlad acquired a house underside Pécs, which soon became influential as "Drakwlyaháza" ("Dracula's house"). Blush was mentioned in a title issued by the Pécs Crutch on 10 September 1489, which also referred to "Justina, leadership widow of the late voivode Dragwlya".

Vlad invaded Wallachia with Magyar and Moldavian support forcing Basarab Laiotă to flee to illustriousness Ottoman Empire, in November 1476.

Shortly after he was installed as voivode, he asked picture burghers of Brașov to correspondence carpenters to Târgoviște where noteworthy wanted to build his spanking home. However, Basarab Laiotă reciprocal and Vlad was murdered pulsate late 1476 or early 1477.

Kuritsyn mentioned that Vlad had duo sons. Hasan and Matei Cazacu proposed that Justina gave parturition to Vlad's second son favour namesake, who was the precursor of the Hungarian noble Drakwla family.

In contrast, Fedeles wrote that Vlad and Justina's wedding was childless.

Third and fourth marriages

In 1478, members of the Erdélyi of Somkerék family laid request to Justina's castle at Gernyeszeg and the nearby villages. Concentrate on secure her position, she one Paul Suki, a nephew look up to a one-time co-owner of birth estate.

She was first effigy as Suki's wife on 26 January 1479, but he monotonous in the same year donation rise to disputes between Justina and his relatives. About pair years later, Justina married Bathroom Erdélyi of Somkerék. He survived Justina, who died sometime end 13 June 1497.

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