Benedict Makrai

Benedict Makrai (, , ; 1360s – after 1421) was a well-educated Hungarian noble and diplomat in the service of Sigismund of Luxemburg, King of Hungary and later Holy Roman Emperor. He is best known for his 1412–13 mission to Poland–Lithuania to mediate their territorial dispute with the Teutonic Knights over Samogitia and Masovia in the aftermath of the Battle of Grunwald. His mission did not resolve the dispute and only heightened the tensions.

Early life and education Makrai was probably born in the second half of the 1360s. His brothers were Sebastian, who served as ispán of the chamber of salt (, mentioned in this capacity in 1397 and 1403), and Stephen, the vice-ispán of Baranya County under Nicholas Garai (around 1388).