Nicholas Szécsényi dating history

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At that time, in the year of 1424, there was a magnate in Hungary, by name Nikolaus Schallaga. This magnate was powerful, a maternal nephew of the Count Palatine [Nicholas Garai] and a son of Frank's brother Simon. He had eight good castles, great fortune and served his King with two thousand horses. Now, this Nikolaus Schallaga murdered his paternal cousin, [Ladislaus II Szécsényi] a son of Frank, who himself was a son of Krungo, [Kónya Szécsényi] beside he plundered, took away from the people what is theirs and did many evil things against the Hungarian law, thus more and more complaints were sent to the King of Rome, who [Sigismund] summoned and sentenced him. Since he could not stand if anyone takes away anything from others in his realm. [...] Therefore Schallaga was senctenced to death and loss of property, who fled the country, leaving behind his castles, lands and people. Then the King confiscated all his castles and estates, and ordered to demolish one of his castles. This [Salgó] was a royal castle and there were sixteen rooms in it. So this is how the expulsion of Schallaga happened. At the same time, the King founded a collegiate chapter in the town of Buda, at the chapel of Jewish Street, dedicated to God and Saint Sigismund, and donated most of Schallaga's fortune [to the chapter].