Collegium Christi, St George order of knighthood
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John Budai, canon of Esztergom and chief dean of Bars established a foundation from the incomes of his four houses in Buda around 1391, at the end of the 14th century. It was called Collegium Christi pauperum scolarium and it supported the university studies of the poor students of the chapter school of Esztergom. For the foundation he bounded even his canon and chief dean salaries. In 1399 Pope Bonifac IX entrusted Stepehen Csokonai, prepost of Esztergom-Szenttamás with supervising and strengthening the regulations of the college. Besides meeting the expenses of studies abroad, there was school education in the college, based on the chapter school, and for this purpose the institution had its own library, the codices of which survived from the beginning of the 15th century. The number of books increased, as the library was supported from the canons' legacy. After the 1543 siege of Esztergom the library was dispersed and the foundation was attached to the university of Vienna in 1526, and later, during the 17th century to another foundation established by Nicholas Oláh in 1568.
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the St George order of knighthood
A secular order of knighthood. It was founded by Charles I in 1326. Its letter of foundation survived together with the signet, which was appended onto it. There are no other data about it. Its aim might have been to unite the knights of the king's court. Several of its characteristics - for example, the choice of the patron saint - reminds of the Dragon Association founded in 1408 by Sigismund.
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