page_title: Ladislaus Jánki
section_title: Archbishop of Kalocsa
hierarchical_section_title: Ladislaus Jánki / Archbishop of Kalocsa
caption_attribution_description: English: Donjon of Vršac Fortress,after restoration.Српски / srpski: Вршачка кула после обнове. This is a photo of Cultural Heritage site of Serbia number СК 1097
context_page_description: Ladislaus Jánki was a Hungarian Franciscan friar and prelate in the first half of the 14th century, who served as Archbishop of Kalocsa and chancellor of the royal court from 1317 until his death. He was considered a faithful partisan of Charles I of Hungary.
context_section_description: Jánki returned to Hungary by 23 October 1317. Joining the royal army, he participated in the siege of Komárom (now Komárno in Slovakia); Charles' troops successfully captured the fort from the powerful oligarch Matthew Csák in November. The king concluded a short-lived peace with the oligarch. After Charles neglected to reclaim Church property that Matthew Csák had seized by force, the prelates of the realm – archbishops Thomas, Ladislaus Jánki and their eleven suffragans – summoned a national synod to Kalocsa and made an alliance in the spring of 1318 against all who would jeopardize their interests. There, Jánki also issued a testimony letter on Matthew Csák's ecclesiastical punishment, who was excommunicated by John, Bishop of Nyitra prior to that. Jánki remained a partisan of Charles I, but not without conditions. Several lands of his diocese was unlawfully seized by Serbian king Stefan Milutin and various Hungarian nobles in the previous years. The prelates entrusted Ladislaus Kórógyi, Bishop of Pécs and Ivánka, Bishop of Várad to inform the royal court on the resolutions of their synod. Upon their demand, Charles summoned a diet immediately to the field of Rákos in summer and commissioned his ispáns and castellans to recover Church property in their territory. Returning to Kalocsa, they informed Jánki on Charles' resolutions. Thereafter, Jánki invited the majority of prelates to hold another meeting in the territory of his archbishopric, at Apostag in July 1318. They protested against Charles, who confiscated the castle of Győr from the Diocese of Győr before that for military strategic reasons. The prelates arrived to the diet from Apostag and jointly represented their interests against the monarch and the secular barons. Before the end of the year, the prelates made a complaint to the Holy See against Charles because he had taken possession of Church property. According to historian Ildikó Tóth, the close cooperation between the prelates lasted until the death of Archbishop Thomas in early 1321; he was succeeded by the king's brother-in-law, Boleslaus. Jánki remained a strong pillar of Charles' reign, but also defended his province's interest. Charles, in contrast, did not even want to share his power with his own faithful church dignitaries.
  Pope John appointed Jánki as conservator of the Pauline friars living in Hungary and the neighboring countries in 1322. The pope opposed the Franciscan understanding of the poverty of Christ and his apostles. He was determined to suppress what he considered to be the excesses of the Spirituals, who contended eagerly for the view that Christ and his apostles had possessed absolutely nothing, either separately or jointly, and who were citing Exiit qui seminat in support of their view. In March 1322, he commissioned experts to examine the idea of poverty based on belief that Christ and the apostles owned nothing. Ladislaus Jánki was among those theologians, who were invited to the papal court at Avignon to participate in the discussion. The experts disagreed among themselves, but the majority condemned the idea on the grounds that it would condemn the Church's right to have possessions. According to the surviving records, Jánki argued in favor of the joint possession of goods by Christ and the apostles, referring to various parts of the Bible (for instance, Jn 13,27–28, Jn 4,8 and Lk 22,36). Considering the majority opinion of his order, however, he refused to call heretics those Franciscan friars, who insisted that Jesus and the apostles did not possess anything, but he was willing to submit himself to the will of the pope if he declares the advertisers of opposite doctrines to be heretics.
  Jánki acted as arbiter in various lawsuits over domestic ecclesiastical affairs during his episcopate. He had a mandate to mediate the dispute between Archbishop Thomas and the burghers of Esztergom in 1320. Jánki was one of the four prelates, who excommunicated John, abbot of Pilis and monk Nicholas for their violent actions against the parsonage of Budakalász in September 1326. Alongside 
caption: Vršac Castle (also Érsomlyó), owned by the Jánki family in the 14th century
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