Vice Chancellor Achilles in Halych in 1246
Data on the history of Hungarian vice ‘deputy’
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https://doi.org/10.18349/MagyarNyelv.2018.1.44Keywords:
vice, вицькыи, vicecancellarius, Vice Chancellor Achilles, Metropolitan Cyril, Hungarian–Galician relations in 1246, The Galician-Volhynian ChronicleAbstract
In its 1250 entry, the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle reports that the King of Hungary sent a вицькыи to Danilo, Prince of Halych (Galicia), with the intention of marrying his daughter off to Danilo’s son. Antal Hodinka, who translated the part of text concerned in his bilingual book a century ago, interpreted вицькыи as the “vice” of the Hungarian king. The Hungarian word vice ‘deputy’ is getting obsolete today. Were it the king’s deputy that was meant, it would refer to the Palatine, an official whose roles included standing in for the king in political matters in those days; but as far as diplomacy was concerned, chancellors and vice-chancellors were more entitled to serve those tasks. The present author thinks that some months prior to the marriage taking place in Zólyom (Slovakian: Zvolen) in September 1246, Béla IV may have sent Vice Chancellor Achilles to the Prince of Halych. Achilles also met with Metropolitan Cyril, both in Halych and later in Hungary. The Metropolitan, who was a chancellor of Danilo, and who compiled part of the Chronicle up to 1250 (actually, 1246), noticed that the royal chancery of Hungary was practically directed by the vice chancellor, rather than by the chancellor himself. It appears to be highly probable that it may have been Cyril who revived the word вицькыи on the basis of the noun vice being in use in Béla IV’s court referring to Vice Chancellor Achilles in everyday parlance.
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