Love during emigration

Abstract

In my study, I present the secret love affair of Nicolaus Olahus (1493–1568), humanist, Archbishop of Esztergom and Chancellor, with Lucretia Caballis vom Ross and the life of their illegitimate and later legitimised daughter. Olahus concealed his love affair and tried to present it to the public in a way that is compatible with his ecclesiastical career, but the truth was never hidden from his close friends – and, it seems, his open-minded contemporaries. How can an illegitimate child be legitimised? Did Olahus succeed in his plan to create a chancery dynasty? These are some of the issues discussed in my study.