Black Army of Hungary | Most Sought-After Mercenaries in Europe 

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Just a minimal geographic knowledge: Hungary is not located on the Balkan peninsula. Neither was part of the Oriental Orthodox civilization of Balkans.

A video on Maratha army please?

I think this period in general is overlooked, but that area is home to some of the more famous conflicts like the siege of Vienna

I think you'll find that most places & times that were "overlooked" had events which hold particular bearing on the affairs of today.

It’s overlooked mostly in pre-Collegiate history but that’s mostly because the history taught at the president-collegiate level is whatever is deemed most significant to the average citizen of your country to know

I think you know as much about this history as is relevant to your countries founding myth. On average anyway, obviously we are all brain poisoned military history geeks who deserve swirlies.

let's not exaggerate, it's not like the Ottomans were one domino away from marching all the way to Paris.

Yes, they are in quite a few folk stories. And if I remember correctly, the Black Army never lost a battle if Kinizsi was the Warlord of the Black Army. In fact, the black army was even led by Vlad Dracula a few times.

Kinizsi Was that the peasant man who served Matthias water on a (very heavy) stone mill wheel? Or whatever its called.

@@ediblemussel4115 Yes, pretty much. According to history, he was not quite a peasant, the ranks were a little higher or at least better. But yes, he used a huge millstone as a tray that the King liked. The King took Kinizsi with him and taught him. He became the King's favorite warlord. Kinizsi if I remember correctly never lost a battle.

@@zvata2017 And according to some sources, he often dual-wielded swords in battle, but I guess it's just the made up part of the story considering the fact that it'd be a stupid idea and swords were just back-up weapons to begin with.

@@tamasfoldesi2358 He is often depicted with two swords. Although this could be real as one was a saber and the other was a longsword. Mivel Magyar vagy így neked ezen a nyelven írnám. A két kardra én is emlékszem de ez még lehet helytálló mivel az egyik egy szablya volta másik meg egy hosszú kard. Gondolom a szablya egy lovassági szablya volt hogy hívták ekkor. Ami a lovon való harchoz lehetett neki míg a keményebb vérteket lehet hogy hosszú kardal szúrta át vagy zúzta szét. Szóval ez még lehet. Legalábbis ennek van is értelme hiszen a fekete seregben voltak az első Huszárok is. És idővel már csak úgy mutatták be mintha mindig két kardot használt volna. Persze ha olyan a helyzet hogy már nincs pajzsa meg egy két párbaj vagy ilyesmi akkor mehetett akár két kardal. De én inkább arra tippelek hogy volt neki mindkettő csak mindig azt használta amelyik neki épp kellett de az utókor ezt már nem tudhatta és tévesen így mutatták be.

Hunyadi lead offensives to these countries agains ottomans After this countries celebrated him That's all

Sorry but romania didnt exist that time.

​@@ggggg895hungary sorry but you are still mongols

@@olejxffhirrtz3777 kid

@@ggggg895hungary Well you are right but Wallachia did exist.

It meant a lot. Matthias expanded to West to gain the Holy Roman Emperor title to collect more power against the Ottomans, and Vienna's ruler was a prince-elector. With Friedrich they had a pact that Matthias will be Friedrich's heir, but if Matthias fails to have a son then the Habsburgs would inherit the Hungarian throne. Matthias died 2 years before Friedrich, without a ligitimate son and the later fate of Hungary went down for a while. It was an all or nothing situation.

Yeah that's Frederick a man who can patiently sit out a situation, no matter how dire, and still come out on top.

@@elemperadordemexico Only after the death of Corvinus.

Between Frederich III accidentally regaining leverage over Hungary because he hated Vienna and Richard the Lionheart wanting to sell London if he could find a buyer there's an odd thing about monarchs hating capital cities. Versailles literally exists because Louis XIV couldn't stand the stench of Paris

@P.B. The archduke of Austria wasn't an elector, it was part of the fabricated document which began the path to arch duchy but Frederick iii was only just able to make ladislaus the posthumous an arch duke let alone investing it with the powers of election

Really? That is a real fun fact

When I heard "Black Army", the first thing that came to mind was Black Legion.

@@dantedo9758 Lego Nigga

You can also find the Matthias Corvinus and the Black Army in the game Civilization 6.

As an RG (okay successor RG) player, I’m stoked to find that out!

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It really was the last one.. After his death, Hungary went into a death spiral that it is still in to this day..

@@thehungryhungarianXi A kieggyezéstől a világháborúig is annak tekinthető, annyi jó dolog valosult meg akkor, ha az a féreg szerb mellé lőtt volna...

@@thehungryhungarianXi Could have remained powerful and relevant as part of Austria-Hungary, but no, they preferred irrelevance and decline.

Judging by the armor, it takes place in the same general period.

There are lots of tales of him outsmarting corrupt landlords by for example going to them in disguise as a poor man tho these are probably only tales.

Griffith's character may be mildly inspired by him. It should be noted that Mathias is actually an upstart noble without any royal lineage who was elected king of Hungary regardless and continued to rule like that. This is actually also the reason why he wanted the Hungarian crown so desperately. His struggles for widely accepted legitimacy continued beyond the grave and his bastard son failed to secure the throne.

Yeah, he is pretty much a Hungarian folk hero and our most famous king along with Stephen I

Just wait until you find out that he captured Dracula, indeed we do need a movie on him.

Dobri kralj Matijaš! :)

why?

@@0kisshun0 Because they were his stable cleaners

@@omnamahshivaya458 angry turk sighted

@@mihovilraboteg6160 Quickly go back to the stable before lord Janos sees you not changing the horse's hooves again, and punishes you because of that! I don't want to see you get in trouble once again.

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I like the most how Hungarians cried how they are opressed by Austria, while opressing every non Hungarians on their territory, no wonder the country fell apart

@@wendigo7176 opress? Learn what opressing means and then comment

@@wendigo7176 It was a good excuse for Trianon. But the truth is, they weren't. And before u come with the language excuse, no, Hungarian wasn't the main language in Hungary most of time. Time for a new excuse bro.

​@@wendigo7176 C'mon kid! You are disgusting. You should learn history, not from a modern nationalist perspective. Usually, the nationality and language don't matter in the noble system, but bloodline and religion. The Kingdom of Hungary was always diverse.

so why did he not help vlad to stop the ottomans..

@@prophetrexlexful8783 becouse he realy didn't care about the ottomans. His main goal was to secure the holy roman empire. He was good at defeating the austrians, unlike the ottomans whom he couldn't defeat. His father could defeat them, but that's a different story....

@@rws2833 No the answer was he was a little puss@ which did care more about wealth than defending christianity and helping vlad.. I am hungarian myself and when i learned about that i was really ashamed.

​​@@rws2833hat was a huge mistake. The same as today. Beware of the new Ottomans.

@@rws2833 actually, he wanted to be the holy roman emperor so he can finish what his father started and defeat the ottomans

Lmao

😂😂😂😂

Yeah no niggaz back than, they were still on trees, somewhere deep in unknown africa

@@lvnt123 All true, but I click on "Replies" and yours disappears. Skynet's algorithms dislike the ugly truth.

I would not be surprised to see a Netflix series putting a black guy acting as Matyás Hunyádi and an army of black dudes in the middle of 14th century's central Europe and some weirdo saying: "My nagypapa always said to me: whatever they tell you, Mathias Corvinus was black"

thank you for your comment, wanted to write the same about the coat of arms! I wouldnt think its nitpicking, details are important, think about Pozsonyi csata :D Kubinyi

It's a gap-filling comment on the video. I was going to write the same. Mine hadn't been so well-organised as I'm not a historian, only a layman. 🙂

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@@SandRhomanHistory CORRECT IT! Just a minimal geographic knowledge: Hungary is not located on the Balkan peninsula. Neither was part of the Oriental (semi-Asian) Orthodox civilization of Balkans.

The vast majority were Czechs or nations who understood mercenary warfare. For a short time they were also Swiss in the army. At the time, nationality did not matter, nationalism was a modern thing. The Hungarian bander forces were deployed against the Turks, and the mercenaries fought more in the West and in Silesia.

Walachian archers used longbows?

@@laszlobudy Depends on what period. Under Vuk Grgurevic (Brankovic) Serbs were majority of forces that raided Sarajevo for example. Croats were majority around Osjek campaign. Ps. I was very careful and specific to say "ethnicities" not nations.

@@matheuscerqueira7952 No? 😊

No, Most soldiers were Czechs and Germans.

No, way too many firearms to be landsknechts. And if you just mean mercenary units with lots of pikes, you might as well call them Swiss.

and firearms

@@terry7907 Swiss Mercernary's were a part of of the Black Army. King Corvinos held them in high regard, like every other monarchy in europe. And then we decided to be Neutral and the Landsknechts copied our tactics. (also our fancy clothes). For 200 Years we were the best, and then they started using guns and artillery, those cowards.

@@terry7907 Landsknects used firearms.

@@einehrenmann6156 "No! You can't just shoot us! You have to fight honorably and die to our pikes!" "Haha musket go boom!"

Well in Hungary we are thought that he died attacking the personal guard of the sultan. It is said that because of his young age and being inexperienced he charged the ottomans with his cavalry, however the personal guard (who had a well-defendable position with spikes against cavalry) butchered them and after the king’s death the Hungarian army basically collapsed. But anyway, much love from Hungary!❤️

@Augustus propaganda? cause it has no other explanation why would a sultan waste time on a head in a pot of honey

@Augustus rulers are too busy that is what I meant smartass

That is for hollywood. Real life is much more tactical. I like that war what was between the Germans and Hungary, the Germans collected one of their biggest army and attacked Hungary thinking they can win every battle. The hungarians burned everything in front of the german army and continously retreated to the middle of their country, when they had to stop they stopped in the best place they could with strong rested army, the germans were starving and tired, the battle was quick and the germans had to throw their shield and armor to save their life from the attacking hungarians. I love how the war started with a stronger attacked the weaker and it ended with the stronger attacked the weaker. Real life war is not about fair fight. :)

Kingdom of Hungary wasn't strongest then ottoman, fir example kingdom of UK or France when they declare of war they sand their own army not with coalition

@@tudorm6838 they are different between sanding add troops and officially France army , like when they at war with uk, Italian estates or HRE they sand full France army with sometimes mercenary, but in other kingdom they relay in coalition army because their army is so small and can't pass 10k

He didn't fail to help Vlad but imprisoned him.

@@canosuslupus2862 He was supporting him for many years, before that happened.

@@KonradTamas No. He supported the buffer state between Mátyás and the Ottomans.

Thank you for the interesting story. Fascinating personal histories or stories such as your’s are why I keep coming back to the RU-vid comments section.

My buddy's ancestor (Jakó nemzettség) has hit the king in the face during a feud. He was not executed but all his lands have been taken away and given to the Tisza family.

@@raze83 Those where hard times. Matthias was a good king after all, but his temper was kinda "unbalanced". Might be that's comes from the Turul bloodline.

Just the two of us!

We have a discount Hunyadi at home :D

@@akosmaradi5281 When you get tired of him, you'll still have a country to go home to.

lmao what for

rainbows invading you or what?

Too late, you cowards let them in.....after years of fighting to keep them out, Merkel and the other woke leaders just opened the gates. Disgusting to the brave men who fought and died years ago. Europe is finished! It is over! They will produce more babies than you and your ancestors will pray 5 times a day forever!

not a good representation in that game. myth.

Fellow EU4 enjoyer

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Blackarmy on eu4 were sucks, with current mercenary system. The blackarmy have disproportional size. And mercenary expensive af for a kingdom as poor as hungary

well, but the name corvinus only came up later as well, right?

@@clintmoor422 No, his coat of arms is a raven

NAH! DEY WAZ BLACK

It was actually named Black Army after the death of Matthias and it originates from one of its leader, Jan Haugwitz

Hungarian Black Army/Black Legion was named because many had black Gothic armor and sallet Sallet helmets. African American :"Na maun dy be blacks fum Africa!" Me: Oh God...

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They disbanded after Matthias's death. They looted nearby villages for food when they ran out of money, so Kinizsi Pál and other officers with a loyal group had to beat the rest to stop the pillaging. After that they went and sought for other lords or ways of living.

Below is the real History. It is The Black Legion that this video is trying to explain about. Most of information on this video is in the right direction, but not well informed. It is not that the people who made the video, don't know what they are doing, it is that nowhere is there information on this subject and the sources are very one sided. Mathias Hunyadi, or by the other name Mathias Corvinus, was the son of Ioan (John) Corvinus who was a great leader. The name Hunyadi evolved because he was from Hunedoara a city In Romania, which means “city of the Huns”. Of course it is believed that Hungarians are descendents of the Huns, but that is wrong. Hungarians are “Magyars” and the word Hun or Hungary does not exist in their language. The land was called Hungary before the Magyars came there. There was no Hungarian whatsoever in the city of Hunedoara. The name CORVINUS came from the word CORB which in Romanian means “Raven”. John Corvinus (Hunyadi) was such a great leader that at the battle of Belgrade with the Turks, there were two kings, but Corvinus was the leader. Ioan Corvinus defeated the Turks at that battle, but died being exhausted by the immense effort. The King of Hungary died as well at that battle, and a new King had to be elected. Mathias (Mateiash in Romanian) was the son of Ioan Corvinus, and although he was not of Royal birth, was elected King of Hungary, by the Hungarians at the Battle. That was the problem. Ioan Corvinus was Romanian and his son became the king of Hungary. It infuriated the high nobility, and they did everything possible to remove Mathias from the position of King. Mathias had specially trained Shepard dogs who would listen only to him, at every door entrance in his Palace because there was so much desire to have him killed by the High Magyar Nobility. The Black Legion was formed of 4000 men and they were specially trained to fight as one, and that Legion was invincible. It was lead by Pavel Chinezu (Paul the Chinese in Romanian) which is known as Kinizsi by the other people. This Pavel Chinezu was also Romanian and very probably was visiting China hence his name. There were many Romanians visiting China decades earlier, but not much is known because Romanians ancestors had the writing prohibited. That is the reason the history of Romanians is not known, but much of it was written by antiquity writers, and in the case I am presenting, it was written by an Italian named Grissellini who was send in that part of the world by Maria Teresa to survey the area. Therefore what I am telling you is not from Romanian historians, but from an Italian who had no reason to take one side or another. The truth is that the Black Legion was destroyed, not terminated, was because after the Turks were placed to understand that Hungary was difficult to conquer, the Black Legion had much leisure time, and as usual power and fame damages the brain, these Legionaries begun to rape and oppress people of the country. They have become unbearable, because they feared nothing. A plan was made between Mathias and Pavel Chinezu that an army must be built to fight the Turks which real purpose was to destroy the Black Legion. The army was being started to be formed, and the Black Legion somehow got wind that it was against them that this army was made for. The Black Legion attacked before the army was totally formed and ready, but Pavel Chinezu was an unbelievable leader and defeated the Black Legion. That was the end of it, and it happened at the order of Mathias, and while he was alive. No doubt the legends of Pavel Chinezu (Kinizsi) being so immensely powerful physically came from his great leadership. People with immense physical strength are not great leaders. Very probably his trip to China made that man very knowledgeable, and the trip itself proves he was a great character.

They call black army cuz when mathias died he's soldiers placed black tape on he's coffin

There are several theories as to why they were called black army. First its important to mention the first time the black army name is used is after the death of Mátyás (Mathias) 1. Because their armor was black. This seems to be the most common reacurrance among people less versed in history but it very well might be just a myth and only present because people think its cool. Black armor was barely used historically (reiters for example used them). But yes we have a few drawings of black armored soldiers. 2. Because one of their last captains had the nickname "Black" and they adopted it 3. Because the soldiers used black ribbons on their armor after the death of Mátyás 4. Mathias had a black raven as a symbol on his coat of arms and they were simply reffered to as such after his death

@@MG-wx9ib I mean any of those could be true, but the fact is there's depiction of the time showing many with black armor or dark color armor on these guys. No, black armor wasn't that rare as one think. It was the Victorian era people that gathered all the Armor and polished off the bluing and the blacking from most armors for the museums because they thought it looks nicer that way. Also as I mentioned if you going to equip the large army or soldiers are going to buy their own armor there's hot forged armor that comes black out of the forge, it cost more money to polish it. But by default it does help against corrosion. They're also more armor that was painted then people think as well. That's why a lot of knights and Lords had their armor polish one reason is to reflect the richness. There's also tactical reasons on that to help blind the other enemy with the reflecting the sun when fighting, or it "looked nicer", and so on reasons.

You are right. More of the History below. It is The Black Legion that this video is trying to explain about. Most of information on this video is in the right direction, but not well informed. It is not that the people who made the video, don't know what they are doing, it is that nowhere is there information on this subject and the sources are very one sided. Mathias Hunyadi, or by the other name Mathias Corvinus, was the son of Ioan (John) Corvinus who was a great leader. The name Hunyadi evolved because he was from Hunedoara a city In Romania, which means “city of the Huns”. Of course it is believed that Hungarians are descendents of the Huns, but that is wrong. Hungarians are “Magyars” and the word Hun or Hungary does not exist in their language. The land was called Hungary before the Magyars came there. There was no Hungarian whatsoever in the city of Hunedoara. The name CORVINUS came from the word CORB which in Romanian means “Raven”. John Corvinus (Hunyadi) was such a great leader that at the battle of Belgrade with the Turks, there were two kings, but Corvinus was the leader. Ioan Corvinus defeated the Turks at that battle, but died being exhausted by the immense effort. The King of Hungary died as well at that battle, and a new King had to be elected. Mathias (Mateiash in Romanian) was the son of Ioan Corvinus, and although he was not of Royal birth, was elected King of Hungary, by the Hungarians at the Battle. That was the problem. Ioan Corvinus was Romanian and his son became the king of Hungary. It infuriated the high nobility, and they did everything possible to remove Mathias from the position of King. Mathias had specially trained Shepard dogs who would listen only to him, at every door entrance in his Palace because there was so much desire to have him killed by the High Magyar Nobility. The Black Legion was formed of 4000 men and they were specially trained to fight as one, and that Legion was invincible. It was lead by Pavel Chinezu (Paul the Chinese in Romanian) which is known as Kinizsi by the other people. This Pavel Chinezu was also Romanian and very probably was visiting China hence his name. There were many Romanians visiting China decades earlier, but not much is known because Romanians ancestors had the writing prohibited. That is the reason the history of Romanians is not known, but much of it was written by antiquity writers, and in the case I am presenting, it was written by an Italian named Grissellini who was send in that part of the world by Maria Teresa to survey the area. Therefore what I am telling you is not from Romanian historians, but from an Italian who had no reason to take one side or another. The truth is that the Black Legion was destroyed, not terminated, was because after the Turks were placed to understand that Hungary was difficult to conquer, the Black Legion had much leisure time, and as usual power and fame damages the brain, these Legionaries begun to rape and oppress people of the country. They have become unbearable, because they feared nothing. A plan was made between Mathias and Pavel Chinezu that an army must be built to fight the Turks which real purpose was to destroy the Black Legion. The army was being started to be formed, and the Black Legion somehow got wind that it was against them that this army was made for. The Black Legion attacked before the army was totally formed and ready, but Pavel Chinezu was an unbelievable leader and defeated the Black Legion. That was the end of it, and it happened at the order of Mathias, and while he was alive. No doubt the legends of Pavel Chinezu (Kinizsi) being so immensely powerful physically came from his great leadership. People with immense physical strength are not great leaders. Very probably his trip to China made that man very knowledgeable, and the trip itself proves he was a great character.

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Hussars were not the development of the earlier missle cavalry. Their main role was the opposite. One was a missle faction, the other was meele.

@@anotherhistoryenthusiast5874 Hussars carried early flintlock pistols and carbines with various melee.

@@nutridrink7737 That was not their main weapon.

Hey, thank you so much! Yeah, the artwork is produced by a few artists by hand. Well, this is true for the characters. The backgrounds are made digitally. The big heads are my own error. I photoshop all of our illustration to mix and match them, to keep everything looking as new as possible (within the constraints of our budget). Sometimes I get the proportions wrong.

@@SandRhomanHistory Never fix it, we like.

"the Kingdom of Hungary has lost its independence for 350 years" Interestingly academic historians and legal historians don't know that laughable fantasy.

@@peterjanossy7033 let's 1526-1699 - Hungary was at first divided in pashaliks and gradually the Habsburgs have conquered them from turks. 1699 - Karlowitz Treaty - the whole Hungary unde Habsburg rule 1699-1848 - Habsburg rule, 1848 - The Revolution of 1848 in which the hungarians armies where curshed by the Habsburg and Russian armies 1867 - the reform of the Habsburg domains - Austro-Hungary. The Hungarians still couldn't elect their rulles, 1914-1918 - WWI, the disolution of the Habsburg monarchy, 1919 - The Socialist revolution curshed by the Romanian Army which would retreat and the Hungarians will finally have the chanse to choose their government 1526-1867 with a grain of salt, but more likely 1919. Almost 400 years. Did I miss somthing?

There was no bankrupcy after King Matthias. Actually he organized the tax collecting system very well. And the Habsburg king was actually inherited the kingdom after King John died and left the crown to Frederick instead of his own son.

@@dorzsboss King John of Hungary was born only in 1491, Emperor Frederick died in 1493. Something is wrong in your answer.

@@peterjanossy7033 True. I meant Ferdinand, not Frederik.

+1 potential reader.

@@anotherhistoryenthusiast5874 Only one more reason for me to hurry and write so I can get to the drawing asap 👌🏻🔥

@@AKRex le dot

Unfortunately, the end of the Black Army was not as great as its history, but rather shameful

@@csordaslevente7053 Yes, the conniving nobles hated to pay Corvinus the taxes to finance the army used to keep them in line, so they offered the Hungarian crown to the Polish Jagelovich dynasty under the promise that they will disband the army and let the nobles defend their territories. Of course when the Ottomans attacked, other nobles failed to support one another and so they fell one by one.

Agree on that it is pretty relative to state, it was too expensive to maintain that army. Money was mostly coming from nobles and their estates, instead of them providing forces. If the Hungarian heartland was at least protected from Turkish raids, it could continue providing steady income. Elsewhere, where army was used offensively, there was opportunity for loot and additional revenue. Also composition and cost of the army would change, depending on it's intended use. As later events show, those "cost cutting" measures opened Hungary to Turkish invasion, total devastation and loss of it's status of regional power.

since exploring america hungary was the number one gold and silver producer of europe. what made hungary the strongest and richest country of europe. just think about population of hungary was 4 million before ottoman wars, when population of uk was 2million.... but the american gold made the "gold" cheap and that cause economical problems in hungary.

But how long could those nobles have provided those taxes? And if only the stature and personality of Corvinus enabled that those taxations, it means a successor could not enforce them and thus would not have the many to keep funding the Black Army.

@@barthoving2053 The Austrians funded the defense of Croatia from only three regions, Hungary with it's control over the east Adriatic and fertile lowlands of the Pannonian basin had far better domestic production and trade. If Austria managed to fund the Military frontier for half a millennia, don't you think a bigger and wealthier nation like Hungary could manage the same for a longer border? Of course a successor could enforce them, that's how modern centralized states came into existence in the first place. King get's money, > king makes army > king forces nobles to pay him protection money through threat of force > nobles can't afford troops and depend on the king > absolutism is born. Corvinus reached step two and then died, a foreign dynasty was then offered a crown in exchange for guarantees which would stop the centralization of power with the crown. This is not a new song and dance, the kingdom was suffering under feudal anarchy for a long time. They forced king Andrew II. to give up so much power in Hungary with the "Golden Bull of 1222", he was basically king in name only. His son Bela IV. called upon the nobles to defend the kingdom from the Mongols but they ignored his call to arms. King SIgismund had to kill a bunch of them when they crowned a pretender and imprisoned his fiancé. This was the reason for Hungary's pain - the lack of unity. The lack of a strong central authority made it easy for foreign powers with an iota of cohesion to chip away at it. The same problem can be seen in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth where foreign bribes made the nobility sabotage all the king's efforts until the nation was partitioned and one of the strongest nations in Europe disappeared seemingly without a shot being fired.

@@makoado6010 Very little gold actually was imported from the Americas into Europe. Spain found more silver which it then traded in East Asia for gold at a favorable rate. It tanked Spain's economy, but unlike Spain, Hungary was a very productive kingdom. The deflation of gold/silver wouldn't have affected them as much because of the rise of price of goods. The East Adriatic and the Pannonian basin were very productive and rich for its time. Venice and Austria would have been far more affected by the devaluation of gold since they depended far more on trade and the circulation of money for their income.

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@@FreightmareFTW ...please get off of my comment you weird, weird person.

One example I can think of is how the British monarchy still utilizes the Stone of Scone, a part of the Medieval Scottish coronation rite, during its own coronation ceremony. The stone was first captured by Edward Longshanks in the 13th century, and up until the mid 90s, it was kept under a ceremomial throne to symbolize England's domination of the Scots.

@@toml1105 Oh I can imagine that plays grand in the modern day.

You act like Sigismund of Luxembourg wasn’t king of Hungary a few decades before this 😂

Don't give them ideas😂

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*licks lips* So you be sayin...?

**smacks lips rudely** Ayo, so you be sayin dat...we...wuz.. hungry an sheeit? Dem yt pipo be lyin an sheeit.

Yes, probably this fall.

Woman King 2 Black Army of Hungary! (just don't tell them they were not really black...)

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@@SetuwoKecik He fulfilled all the prophecies written of the messiah He was a prophet but He was also the son of God

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No, not really. That's a twisted version. Every twentieth flat had to provide an archer, not a hussar. This is an earlier practice. And this was not even the rule of the Black Army, but the Banderium. A noble had to bring troops, this was just one version of that. The hussar does not come from this. The word comes from the Serbian "gussar" bandit. Hussars can not be traced back to the 9th century conquerors. They had totally different tactics. 9th century Magyars were missle cavalry, using bows and javelins. Hussars in the other hand were primerary meele cavalry. Székelys were not connected to hussars either. Székelys had three kinds of units they sent to the king. 1. Székely infantry, these were the poorer Székelys, equipped with light armor and polearms, fighting as infantry. 2. Székely cavalry, or lófej. They were the Székely middle class, they were horse archers. At this time they used composite bows and western style light armor and straight, double edged swords. 3. The Székely high class (előkelők) was a minority. They worn the best armor available and fought as heavy cavalry. As you can see, there was no light meele cavalry that the Székelys used commonly. Through the majority of the middle ages, the Hungarian cavalry could've been split into three parts. Horse archers were mostly provided by vassals like Székelys, Cumans and Jazigs. This was a significant portion. The other big group was the Hungarian light or medium cavalry. They were lightly equipped lancers. Their equipment was similar to the one of the knights, but less complete and they used a different approach. And there was the heavy cavalry, who were the fighting nobles (servient), basically knights. This was a small portion of the overall army. The Hussars can not be directly traced back to the medium cavalry either, becouse they used western style armor and weapons, while the hussars used sabres and were dressed in the eastern style, often not having armor. The Hussars were clearly a development against the Ottoman light cavalry. And partly a development based on them. That's why they have eastern features. There is no continuity to the old Magyars.

@@anotherhistoryenthusiast5874 No, Banerium consisted only noble origin soldiers, who did not fight as light cavalry, only as heavy cavalry. The other traditional army was the levy army, consisted burgeois town-dwellers from the cities, they were infantry soldiers. The medieval hussars were of peasant origin soldiers, mostly from migrant souther Slavic elements. According to Antonio Bonfini, this lightly armed cavalry (expeditissimus equitatus) was not allowed to be part of the regular army, when the order of the battle was formed, but was placed outside it in quite separate groups and used to destroy, burn, kill and instil fear in the civilian population, while they rode ahead of the regular army.[32] They assembled from the militia portalis, a significant number of them insurrectios, the Moldavians and Transylvanians with the first having serfs with lesser accoutrement and the latter generally regarded as good horse archers. They were divided into groups of 25 (turma) led by a captain (capitaneus gentium levis armature). Their field of operation was scouting, securing, prowling, cutting enemy supply lines, and disarraying them in battle. They also served as an additional maneuverable flank (for swooping advance attacks) to strong centers of heavy cavalry. The medieval Hungarian written sources spoke disparagingly and contemptuously of the light cavalry and the hussars in general, and during battles the texts praised only the virtues, endurance, courage, training and achievements of the knights. No wonder, since during the Middle Ages the Hungarian noble origin soldiers served exclusively as heavy armoured cavalry.[33]

@@chriswanger284 I meant that the members of the banderium brought soldiers to the battle, their own. But I did not say they fought together or in one army. They just provided soldiers, but fought separately.

Wrong. The term hussar comes from serbian/croatian word husar who were irregular cavalry troops fighting guerrila warfare against the ottomans. The word husar itself comes from the serbian/croatian word gusar(pirate/brigand). They didn't originate from hungarian tactics because hungarians, like most asian nomadic tribes, fought with mostly horse archer based armies in the 9th and 10th century whereas hussars fought mainly with sabers. They were a balkan adaptation of ottoman cavalry.

@@666Kaca Again. Hungarians are genetically and anthropologically more European than Balkanite people or East Slavic people. (earn modern autosomal/full genome population genetics) Hungarians and French kings had the largest heavy knight army among medieval European monarchs since the 12th century. The hussars were inferior in a comparison with Hungarian knights, however they were much cheaper, because they had no noble origin, and the cost of knight armor was expensive.

Iirc they're called magyars back then?

@@regierdityatriadi9821 Yes, and optionally today too. ,😊

considering they have nothing to show for of those conquests and victories no, they didn’t accomplish more than Attila or Genghis Khan or Timur or fuckin Napoleon, Hungarians got defeated by the Umayyads when they tried to raid in Spain and some of the captured became bodyguards of the Umayyad sultan and Otto the Great broke them in the battle of Pressburg, comparing them to Attila alone is insane, Genghis and Timur and Napoleon are in league of their own

@@johnnyboy3410 Your comment is full of errors. Otto did not defeated the Hungarians at Pressburg. The Hungarians crushed at Pressburg the army of Eastern Francia, killing íts all leaders in 907. Also the Omeyads did not crushed the Hungarians in any battle is Spain, but the Hungarians retreated after besieging many Spanish cities, capturing the governor of Barbastro, and teceiving ransom for him. So they departed with plunders and money from there. So their campaign was successful. And in many of their campaigns they crossed 5-6, and even 10 countries (for example in 936-937, when they crossed Bavaria, Thuringia, Saxonia, France, Burgundy, Italy, the papal state, the Southern Italian provinces of the Byzantine Empire, the duchy of Benevento, Croatia, etc.), thousands of kms with only a COUPLE of HUNDREDS soldiers, defeating the enemy in battles and taking the plunder home. You compare this with Attila, Ginghis Khan or Napoleon who led tens and hundreds of thousands of soldiers? And it is almost no example that a great commander to cross so many countries in a single campaign like the Hungarians with a couple of hundreds. I know only two: Hannibal and the campaign of Djebe and Subotay in 1223. With the difference that they lead tens of thousands of soldiers, while the Hungarians only a couple hundreds. To obtain their victories and to cross so many enemy countries with such a few soldiers, it is a miracle of the military world history.

@@szalard my mistake, it was the Battle of Lechfeld, you can look it up and the Umayyads did defeat the Hungarians raiding and as i said even had the captured become bodyguards for the sultan, raiding isn’t that impressive, Attila destroyed Roman Cities, Genghis Khan destroyed cities and enslaved and raped all over central asia, Napoleon wasn’t born in middle ages so he wasn’t big on raiding and instead went from Paris to Moscow, even though it ended up dooming him, that’s far more distance than the Hungarians crossed

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You know they will! 😂

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1:01. Funny now the liberals just let them in their countries in masses. All that fighting for sovereignty was nothing I guess. Who would have imagined any one at this time let alone 17 years ago telling them places like London is no longer English nor Christian. 🤯

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