Hungary gifts the child armour of Poland’s former king, Sigismund II Augustus, to the Polish – PHOTO GALLERY
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The Hungarian government has decided: the Hungarian National Museum will gift the child armour of Sigismund II Augustus to the Polish for free. The armour was previously believed to have belonged to Louis II of Hungary.
Telex has noticed that the Hungarian Official Gazette of December 24th wrote the following: The ownership of the artefact titled the ‘child armour of the Polish king Sigismund II Augustus’ should be transferred to the Republic of Poland free of charge. The reason why Hungary gives this valuable artefact, which is in the main inventory of the Hungarian National Museum, to Poland is because of the 1992 Convention on Cultural and Scientific Cooperation between Hungary and Poland.
According to Népszava, Sigismund II Augustus was not only a King of Poland but also a Grand Duke of Lithuania. The Lithuanian and Latvian Lectorate of the Institute of Slavic and Baltic Philology of the Eötvös Loránd University in Hungary, Budapest, commemorated the 500th anniversary of the birth of the last ruler of the Jagiellonian dynasty on its Facebook page in September this year.
“The Hungarian National Museum preserves the child armour of Sigismund II Augustus, which was gifted by the Holy Roman Emperor, Ferdinand I, to the future husband of his daughter, Elizabeth Habsburg, in 1533. The armour was made by Jörg Seusenhofer, the royal armoursmith in Innsbruck,” they wrote.
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Népszava wrote about the armour almost a year ago; for a long time, it was believed that the armour belonged to Louis II of Hungary. The mistake was highlighted by a study published in the late ‘30s, by Bruno Thomas:
