Main description (English)

Since the creation of the Kingdom of Hungary in the year 1000, its political and economic relations with Rome and the papacy were deep and continuous. The documentation describes many personalities — aristocrats, clerics, orators, ambassadors, crusaders, travellers, pilgrims, intellectuals, students — of social origins ranging from nobilis to homo novus who arrived in Rome and in the lands of the Church throughout the Middle Ages. This contribution aims to highlight some of these figures of the political, economic, and cultural élites of the Kingdom of Hungary and its Transylvanian lands, not always known to Western historiography.