Palace Chapel (Buda Castle)

The Gothic chapel, which survived the destruction of the 1686 siege, was buried under a Baroque terrace for centuries.

Windecke claimed that Charles II of Hungary was attacked by his murderers in 1386 in a room from which the royal chapel could be seen: "konig Karle von Nopols erslagen zü Ofen in der vesten in der stuben, do man sicht in die capell."

The chancel was built upon a lower church, a solution which was necessitated by the lack of space on the narrow plateau.

The flamboyant Royal Church of Buda Castle was similar to the more famous Sainte-Chapelle in Paris.

[1] In November 1489 Sultan Bayezid II sent the relics of John the Almoner to King Matthias Corvinus.

In 1541 the Ottoman Turks captured Buda without fight and the Royal Church ceased to be a place of Christian worship.

Medieval Palace Chapel
Buda Castle in the Middle Ages , from the Chronicles of Hartmann Schedel . The Palace Church, dedicated to St. John the Almoner, is indicated by the blue rectangle.