István Werbőczy

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István Werbőczy
Budin, Budin Eyalet, Ottoman Hungary
(today: Budapest, Hungary)
Noble familyHouse of Werbőczy
Spouse(s)1. from Szobi family
2. Katalin Hercegh
3. Anna Surányi
IssueImre Werbőczy
Erzsébet Werbőczy
FatherOsvát Werbőczy
MotherApollónia Deák
Signature
OccupationJurist, Politician
The native form of this personal name is Werbőczy István. This article uses Western name order when mentioning individuals.

István Werbőczy or Stephen Werbőcz (also spelled Verbőczy and

Canon Law
and the Hungarian legal system.

Life

His influential work: Tripartitum

He began his political career as the deputy of Ugocsa County to the Hungarian diet of 1498, in which his eloquence and scholarship had a 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 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.[3]

The most striking proof of his popularity at this time is the fact that the diet voted him two

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 parties fiercer than ever and the whole country in a state of anarchy.[3]

At the diet of

János Szapolyai, 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 labors was the famous Opus tripartitum juris consuetudinarii inclyti regni hungariae (commonly called simply the Tripartitum), the de facto lawbook of Hungary until 1848—although as late as 1945 some laws of inheritance were still regulated by this work.[3]

The full Latin text (with English translation) of Werbőczy's Tripartitum (as printed by Singrenius in 1517) was published as The Customary Law of the Renowned Kingdom of Hungary: A Work in Three Parts, the "Tripartitum" = Tripartitum opus iuris consuetudinarii inclyti regni Hungariæ; edited and translated by János M. Bak, Péter Banyó, and Martyn Rady; with an introductory study by László Péter; Schlacks and CEU Press, Idyllwild, CA, and Budapest, 2005.

References

  1. ^ Kármán & Kunčević 2013, p. 68.
  2. ISBN 9780521397681
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  3. ^ a b c Bain 1911.

Attribution:

Bibliography

  • Kármán, Gábor; Kunčević, Lovro (2013). The European Tributary States of the Ottoman Empire in the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries. Leiden: Brill.
    ISBN 9789004246065
    .
Political offices
Preceded by Chief justice
1516–1525 		Succeeded by
Preceded by
Palatine of Hungary

1525–1526 		Succeeded by
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