Az 1329. évi "residentia exercitus regis"

Abstract

In 13-14 centuries there used to be a dating method in Hungary not applied in anywhere else in Europe. The dates of legal cases suspended because of royal military campaigns would be set by determining a particular period following the disbandment after which the parties had to appear in court. The phrase residentia exercitus regis refers to the day of disbandment. There ara several documents dated according to the day of residentia. The fact that the correspondence between the day of a certain disbandments and its exact calender day is generally not known makes the chronological registration difficult.

I will examine each reference to any residentia exercitus regis and will come to the conclusion that the former assumption which dated the day of residentia exercitus regis of 1329 after 1 August is inaccurate. The data clearly show that the day in question is 13 January 1329 when the army taking part in the military campaign against Austria was disbanded.