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Probably anyone who has read the stars of Eger carefully, Géza Gárdonyi’s large-scale, though sometimes highly descriptive, historical panel on Perhaps the last glorious battle in Hungarian history will surely remember the name of István Mekcsey in addition to the Dobó trio -Bornemissza-Vicuska. We meet him for the first time in the court of Bálint Török, when the then little Gregory Bornemissza behaves abruptly, “rude frater” – says Bornemissza, “a good boy, just a little pointed” – answers another little thing. From his description, we know he had a “big bumpy head”, “small, strong black eyes”, a mustache “pointy as an iron nail”.
The book also reveals that, to put it mildly, he has a fierce temperament, today we could say that he has temperament problems. His first encounter with Bornemissa almost ends in a duel the next time we see him wash his bloody head in Berettyó after settling some Turks in a skirmish. And Dobó, whose deputy in the castle of Eger during the siege of 1552, says of him: “You are like a bull. You hit every tree and suddenly you can’t get your horn out. “
The accuracy of Gárdonyi’s characterization is perfectly demonstrated by the death of Mekcsey: we can safely say that he was one of the first known Darwin Prize winners in Hungarian history.
Mekcsey was a person who existed like most of the protagonists of the novel (of the protagonists, only Jumurják and Éva Cecey were fictional characters). There is no exact data on the place and time of his birth, he is mentioned in a letter from 1536 as Stephanus Mechkey of Halesfalva, which presumably corresponds to the current Helesfa in Baranya, Szentlőrinc district (he is not the only hero of Bergemissza Bornemissza in Pécs the novel itself begins in Baranya), and the new Hungarian biographical lexicon estimates his date of birth at around 1,500.
His life shows the career (average) of an applicant, militant, small or medium nobility. According to a 2005 study by Gergely Csiffáry, his first written mention dates back to 1507, when he and his two brothers, György and László, acquired former Losonczy properties in Hont County. The earliest evidence of his military service dates back to 1546, when one of the Hungarian Hungarian officers from Győr Castle, the commander of 98 hussars. A year later, he was already a castle in Huszt Castle, the prefect of the important and profitable Maramures salt mines and the mayor of Maramures County.
He became the head of Eger’s castle and also the deputy captain of Dobo in 1551, a year before the siege. At the time of the Turkish attack, according to the novel, he stands out with his previously known militancy: “he himself jumps to the wall with a knife killing a year and a half,” writes Gárdonyi about it, “it was almost impossible to prevent him from going into lose “among the Turks. already in its hours that “blood is spilling red on the grille of the helmet.”
Although he suffered serious damage when defending the Old Gate, according to Tinódi, “the stone is a great injury to mosquitoes”, this did not prevent him from continuing to fight, he was on the castle walls until the last day of the siege. According to the aforementioned Csiffáry study, “he not only encouraged his people with pleasant speeches (…) like Dobó, but he also blushed his gunmen, and even if he did not use it, he led these few people with a stick to protect the walls “, as Gárdonyi says:” enraged, he stumbled upon the stunned and disobedient soldiers with a broken spear handle “.
This fierce temperament caused his loss, even in peacetime.
After the successful defensive battle, he and Dobo resigned, as in response to the fact that they had asked for help from the Habsburgs and the noble assembly of Upper Hungary before the Turkish attack.
Photo: Wikipedia
Finally, in March 1553, they left Eger Castle and went to their family, including their newborn son, according to some records to Uzhhorod, others to Budetin Castle in the highlands. To be sure, on the way home, they stopped in the village of Sajóvárkony, where Mekcsey and his men demanded fresh, rested horses for their wagons and hay to feed them.
The requests were regular at the time, but this time the Sajóvárkony peasants were reluctant to comply with the request for some reason. That was enough for the fiercely tempered Mekcsey, who attacked the peasants with his group of eight to ten, presumably in the hope of a light triumph. However, the people of Sajóvárkony resisted the soldiers and a bloody armed confrontation ensued.
According to Miklós Istvánffy, who lived in the 16th century, “[Mekcsey] and the brave men with him would have allowed the townspeople to make a few pairs of draft horses underneath them, and they would linger without hesitation, they would spend swarms attacking weapons, and many on both sides would be killed when he was not in a very good position to stop.
He hit you in the forehead with a car, from a peasant man who killed the famous brave man.
And Tinódi described the same shock as follows:
Large reckless pores resurrect.
No help is provided later,
They even resisted with weapons,
He was found on the forehead with an ax.
Azomba was hit by two spears,
This noble knight will soon be killed.
So, what the Turkish army of 50-100 thousand failed, and the Turkish soldiers who assaulted for years before, failed, an ax peasant joined: in battle he managed to defeat the warrior hero (and warrior) of Eger Castle, who, Furthermore, she managed to defeat him in a completely meaningless battle.
Incidentally, the three defenders of the three heroes of Eger Castle ended in a glorious ending, as can be read in more detail here (although we previously wrote an ax incorrectly instead of an ax, we apologize to our interested readers In agricultural equipment technology). Dobó was imprisoned for treason in 1569 and released shortly before his death in 1572, while Gergely Bornemissza was captured by the Turks in 1554 and taken to Constantinople, where Pasha Ahmed, the fallen leader of the Eger siege, hanged him for revenge.
(Cover image: a reduced copy of Eger Castle during the filming of the film Eger Stars in Pilisborosjenő in 1968. Photo: Miklós Lőw / Fortepan)
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