Nemes Gábor, a senior research fellow of the Fraknói Research Group, presented a lecture titled The Role of Cardinals in Late Medieval Papal-Hungarian Relations on October 21, 2024, as part of the lecture series Personal History – Journeys through the World of the Middle Ages and Early Modern Period, organized by the Department of Medieval and Early Modern History at the University of Pécs, Faculty of Humanities. In his talk, after a brief overview, he analyzed the activities of the cardinal legates who served in Hungary between 1500 and 1526, as well as the cardinal protectors who represented the Hungarian royal court in Rome. He also paid special attention to the foreign clerics who accompanied the apostolic legates to Hungary, examining their origins, careers, and informal networks.
