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Diplomacy of the Šubići regarding relations between them, Neapolitan Angevins, Papacy and Venice at the end of the thirteenth and in the first decades of the fourteenth century

The counts of Bribir from the Šubić kindred played an important role in the political events in the Kingdom of Hungary-Croatia at the turn from the thirteenth to the fourteenth century. At that time they successfully replaced already weakened royal power of the last Árpádians in Croatia based on the fact that leading member of the kindred, Paul I, became ban and converted that position into personal rule of him and an oligarchy consisting of his brothers Mladen I and George I and their supporters. Still, that rule remained basically legally founded (relaying on the good relations with royal court) and in a manner of speaking postponed the collapse of the central authority in Croatia (in contrast to the situation happening at that time all over Hungary and Slavonia). The Šubići even succeeded in creating relatively compact and stabile territory containing besides Croatia-Dalmatia also neighbouring regions/territories of Bosnia and Hum. This rule of the Šubići was carefully built-up over the long period and for its establishment very important role played also diplomacy. They kept regular diplomatic contacts with all the centres of power in their surrounding, in the first place with Papal Curia in Rome, royal court of the Angevins in Naples and Venice, but also with lesser powers such were the Counts of Görz/Gorica or different Italian communes (especially those antagonistic to Venice). The paper presents the course of their diplomatic actions over time. Their diplomatic activity was in the first place directed towards strengthening of their rule over their territories, expansion on the remaining Venetian acquisitions on the coast (in the first place Zadar) and integration of the whole Adriatic coastal area under their control, as well as gaining of the legal ground for this, but because of that they had to get involved into contemporary European diplomacy, which they did in the first place by support to the Angevins in the struggle for the crown of Hungary, but also to the papacy against its enemies.

diplomacy; aristocracy; Angevins; Šubići; political history; the Middle Ages

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