GYULA CASTLE

The manor of Gyula was donated by King Sigismund in 1403 to János Maróti, the king of Macsó. With the extinction of the Marótians, the territory became the property of King Matthias Hunyadi, who donated it to his son János Corvin. After him, in the early 16th century, the castle and the manor were given into the possession of Beatrix Frangepán, wife of János Corvin, daughter-in-law of King Matthias.

Despite the fact that it was located in the Great Plain, and due to the great distance and cost of obtaining stone, it was built of fired bricks from the clay of the Körösök river. In the second half of the 16th century, the Gyula fortress was one of the three strongest forts in the country, along with Eger and Szigetvár.