14 January 1301The last golden branchPosledná zlatá ratolesť
SlovakiaSlovensko
On 14 January 1301 King Andrew III died in Buda without a son, and with him the House of Árpád ended after four hundred years on the throne — a palatine of the day called him the last golden branch of St Stephen's tree. Three foreign candidates claimed the crown at once and the fighting between them ran for the better part of a decade. While the kings quarrelled, the men who actually held the castles stopped obeying anyone at all. Historians call them oligarchs: great lords who ran whole provinces as private kingdoms, struck their own coins, appointed their own officials and kept their own armies. Nowhere in the kingdom did that go further than in the north-west — in what is now Slovakia.14. januára 1301 zomrel v Budíne kráľ Ondrej III. bez mužského potomka a s ním po štyristo rokoch na tróne vymrel rod Arpádovcov — vtedajší palatín ho nazval poslednou zlatou ratolesťou zo stromu svätého Štefana. O korunu sa naraz prihlásili traja cudzí uchádzači a boje medzi nimi trvali dobrých desať rokov. Kým sa králi hádali, tí, čo hrady naozaj držali, prestali poslúchať kohokoľvek. Historici ich volajú oligarchovia: veľmoži, ktorí spravovali celé kraje ako súkromné kráľovstvá, razili vlastné mince, menovali vlastných úradníkov a vydržiavali vlastné vojská. Nikde v kráľovstve to nezašlo ďalej ako na severozápade — na území dnešného Slovenska.
The last golden branchPosledná zlatá ratolesť
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