John's father,
Voyk and Voyk's four kinsmen, including John himself.
[4] According to the document, John's father served in the royal household as a "court knight" at that time, suggesting that he was descended from a respected family.
[5][6] Two 15th-century chroniclers
Johannes de Thurocz and
Antonio Bonfiniwrite that Voyk had moved from
Wallachia to
Hungary upon King Sigismund's initiative.
[3][7] Lszl Makkai, Malcolm Hebron,
Pl Engel and other scholars accept the two chroniclers' report of the Wallachian origin of John Hunyadi's father.
[5][8][9][10] In contrast with them, Ioan-Aurel Pop says that Voyk was a native of the wider region of Hunyad Castle.
[11] Antonio Bonfini was the first chronicler to have made a passing remark of an alternative story of John Hunyadi's parentage, soon stating that it was just a "tasteless tale" fabricated by Hunyadi's opponent,
Ulrich II, Count of Celje.
[12][13] According to this anecdote, John was actually not Voyk's child, but King Sigismund's illegitimate son.
[12][14] The story became especially popular during the reign of John Hunyadi's son,
Matthias Corvinus who erected a statue for King Sigismund in
Buda.
[15] The 16th-century chronicler
Gspr Heltai repeated and further developed the tale, but modern scholarsfor instance, Cartledge, and Kubinyiregard it as an unverifiable gossip.
[14][13] Hunyadi's popularity among the peoples of the
Balkan Peninsula give rise to further legends of his royal parentage.
[16][2]
The identification of John Hunyadi's mother is even less certain.
[13][15] In connection with King Sigismund's supposed parentage, both Bonfini and Heltai say that she was the daughter of a rich
boyar, or nobleman, whose estates were located at Morzsina (present-day
Margina, Romania).
[13][15] Pop proposes that she was called Elisabeth.
[11] According to historian Lszl Makkai, John Hunyadi's mother was a member of the Muzsina (or Mușina)
kenez family from
Demsus (Densuș, Romania), but Pop refuses the identification of the Morzsina and Muzsina families.
[11][17]
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Emir Ahmad Harfouche (1935)
He couls be French or Italian.
