Wolfgang Lazius visited Transdanubia (western Hungary) in 1541 as a medical doctor with the army. He completed his new map of Hungary, entitled Regni Hungariae descriptio vera [...] and Des Khünigreich Hungarn sampt seinen eingeleibten Landen gründliche und warhafftige Chorographica Beschreybung [...] in 1552 and it was printed in Viennna in 1556. The Tabula Hungariae went into several editions, though even contemporaries were unhappy about the Danube’s curious course on this map and a number of attempts were made to correct this. In due course the east-west/north-south line of the Danube was altered to a northwest-southeast direction. In his maps Lazius not only changed the direction of the flow of the Danube; he also relocated the Tihany Peninsula to the southern shore of Lake Balaton. He even created new place-names, such as Z[ent] Hidwig and Z[ent] Hedwig, which originally occurred on Lazarus’s map in the form Hidwig and Hidweg (‘bridge end’; these settlements are now Zalavár, Rábahidvég, Ipel’ské Predmostie). Lazius must have thought these represented the name Hedwig and he granted them sainthood for this reason. The saintly names appear on the maps that show the Tihany Peninsula on the southern shore of the lake.