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Relations between Croatia and England in the Late Middle Ages: Searching for the Tombstone of the Confraternity of Croatian Seamen in North Stoneham near Southampton

The introduction briefly discusses political and cultural contacts between Croatia and England in the Middle Ages (the connection of the “pioneer of Croatian and European science” Herman the Dalmatian with Robert of Ketton, the debatable arrival of King Richard the Lionheart in Dalmatia, the appointment of Archbishop Bernard of Dubrovnik as the bishop of Carlisle, and so on). In the following centuries, the travels and stay of Croats in English cities and towns became more and more frequent and diversified. The contacts between Croatia and England and the presence of the Croats in the urban settlements there became more intense for the first time due to the service of many Croats in the Venetian merchant navy, that is, serving on the navigation of the so-called “galleys of Flanders” to the harbours of southern England. From the second half of the fifteenth to the middle of the sixteenth century, Southampton was the leading port of Italian merchants in England and during that period there operated a number of merchants and seamen from Croatian areas. In the church of St. Mary of Southampton, there was the tomb of the confraternity of Croatian seamen navigating on Venetian ships. The sepulchral slab of this tomb is today in the church of St. Nicholas of the nearby settlement of North Stoneham, and its inscription from 1491 testifies that the tomb was erected by the members of the Croatian confraternity Scuola degli Schiavoni, founded in Venice in the middle of the fifteenth century.

Anglo-Croatian relations; Southampton; Venice; trade; seamanship; the Late Middle Ages

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