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Tamás Bakócz (
1442 –
June 15,
1521),
Hungarian archbishop,
cardinal and statesman.
He was the son of a wagoner and was adopted by his uncle, who trained him for the priesthood and whom he succeeded as rector of
Tétel (
1480). He studied in
Breslau and
Padova. Shortly afterwards he became one of the secretaries of
King Matthias I, who made him bishop of
Győr and a member of the royal council (
1490). Under
Wladislaus II (
1490–
1516) he became successively bishop of
Eger, the richest of the Hungarian sees, archbishop of
Esztergom (1497), cardinal (
1500), and titular
Latin Patriarch of Constantinople (
1510).
From
1490 to his death in
1521 he was the leading statesman of Hungary and mainly responsible for foreign policy. It was solely through his efforts that Hungary didn't accede to the league of
Cambrai, was consistently friendly with
Venice, and formed a family compact with the Habsburgs. He was also the only
Magyar prelate who seriously aspired to the papal throne. In
1513, on the death of
Julius II, he went to
Rome for the express purpose of bringing about his own election as pope. He was received with more than princely pomp, and all but succeeded in his design, thanks to his extraordinary adroitness and the command of an almost unlimited bribing-fund. But Venice and the emperor played him false, and he failed.
He returned to
Hungary as papal legate, bringing with him the bull of
Leo X proclaiming a fresh crusade against the Turks. But the crusade degenerated into a jacquerie which ravaged the whole kingdom, and much discredited Bakócz. He lost some of his influence at first after the death of Wladislaus, but continued to be the guiding spirit at court, till age and infirmity confined him almost entirely to his house in the last three years of his life. He left a fortune of many millions.
He and his family are buried in a separate chapel of the
Esztergom Basilica, the most precious artwork of the Hungarian Renaissance.
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