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Voyk Hunyadi. Voyk was born in Wallachia, according to the nearly contemporaneous historians Johannes de Thurocz and Gáspár Heltai. Voyk had been serving as a "court knight" in the royal court when he received the demesne of Hunyad from King Sigismund, suggesting that he was descended from a prominent Wallachian family.
- John Hunyadi, Ban of Severin
John Hunyadi ( c. 1419 – 1440 or 1441) was a Hungarian noble...
- John Hunyadi, Ban of Severin
John Hunyadi. John Hunyadi ( Hungarian: Hunyadi János; Romanian: Ioan de Hunedoara; Croatian: Janko Hunjadi; Serbian: Сибињанин Јанко, romanized : Sibinjanin Janko; c. 1406 – 11 August 1456) was a leading Hungarian military and political figure in the Kingdom of Hungary during the 15th century. According to most contemporary ...
John Hunyadi (Medieval Latin: Ioannes Corvinus; Hungarian: Hunyadi János; Romanian: Iancu or Ioan de Hunedoara) (c. 1387 – August 11, 1456), nicknamed the White Knight, was a Voivode (Ruler) of Transylvania (from 1441), captain-general (1444–1446) and regent (1446–1453) of the Kingdom of Hungary, with a distinguished military career and ...
8 nov 2018 · and that Voyk, the man who claimed to be his biological father, was a nobleman who was granted land and title in order to silence him and to thank him for raising John instead of the royal family. This was later regarded as gossip, which was spread by Ulrich II, Count of Celje, John’s rival, as the chronicler Antonio Bonfini revealed.
The founder of the family, Voyk, received the eponymous Hunyad Castle (in present-day Hunedoara, Romania) from Sigismund, King of Hungary, in 1409. His ethnicity is the subject of scholarly debate. Some modern historians describe him as a Vlach , or Romanian ,
Military of theOttoman Empire. Voynuks (sometimes called voynugans or voynegans) were members of the privileged [1] Ottoman military social class established in the 1370s or the 1380s. Voynuks were tax-exempt non- Muslim, usually Slavic, [2] and also non-Slavic Vlach [3] Ottoman subjects from the Balkans, particularly from the ...
