Francis Rákóczi II was Prince of Transylvania and an Imperial Prince. Like his ancestors, the Princes of Transylvania George I and George II Rákóczi, he established his own diplomacy and had contacts with the most important European powers. His diplomats, especially Dominique Brenner and Jean-Michel Klement, helped disseminate information about the Hungarian War of Independence in Europe. The legal argumentation of Rákóczi’s diplomacy was based upon the restoration of basic Hungarian laws, like the Golden Bull (1222) and the Tripartitum (1514). After the end of the Hungarian War of Independence, Francis Rákóczi II left Hungary for Poland and after a short stay, he travelled to France and joined the Court of Louis XIV at Versailles. After Louis XIV’s death, Prince Rákóczi devoted his life to religion and to the writing of his literary works (his Confessions and his Memoirs), which reflected his final legal arguments for an independent Hungarian monarchy.