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204 Tamás Pálosfalvi more fragmented than in the preceding period, and no charter of his is known between 25 July 1442 and 6 January 1443. In view of this it is not surprising that we have nothing to add to what has so far been written on the attack of Sead-ed- Din and on his defeat at the hands of Hunyadi78. It is precisely from the silence of the charter evidence that we conclude that the voivode's attack against the Bulgarian city of Vidin took place immediately after the battle fought by the river Ialomiţa in the first days of September, without the voivode's returning to Transylvania79. One thing is certain, however: Hunyadi's co-voivode, Miklós Újlaki, was present in none of these expeditions80. We are in a much more favourable situation as regards the fourth major clash with the Ottomans that took place before the so-called long campaign: Hunyadi's incursion into the northern parts of Serbia81. The main difference with respect to the previous conflicts is that Wladislaw's charter explicitely says that this time the two voivodes acted together. A charter once published by József Teleki, issued on 9 February by Hunyadi's viscount of Arad, Miklós Székely, which speaks about peasants going ad presentem exercitum generalem, clearly refers to this expedition to Serbia82. The itinerary of the two voivides is entirely in accordance with this information: in January Hunyadi's presence is attested at Csanád and Szeged, while Újlaki appears on 20 February at Újlak (Ilok, Valkó county)83. Since on 27 March both voivodes appear in the court of Buda84, we can safely conclude that the Serbian campaign took place in the first half of March, Újlaki probably joining his fellow voivode at Szeged at the end of February85. By 25 April Hunyadi returned to Csanád, whence he went through Oradea to 78 See the narratives of O. Székely, op. cit. (see note 46), pp. 18-26, and L. Elekes, op. cit. (see note 35), pp. 159-164. 79 See Wladislaw's charter in L. Thallóczy- Á. Áldássy, op. cit. (see note 40), p. 142, and his other charter published in the appendix of the present study. 80 The known elements of his itinerary in 1442 are the following: 9 June: Buda (Dl. 92.933); 23 June: Bátorkő, Veszprém county (Dl. 13.683); 17 August: Buda (J. Teleki, op. cit., X, p. 120); 23 September: Bátorkő (Dl. 44.335); 17 December: Győr (Zichy, IX, p. 46.). 81 L. Thallóczy- Á. Áldássy, op. cit. (see note 40), p. 142: "...deinde vice altera cum magnifico Nicolao conwayvoda suo invadunt partes Uzure et Rascie..." 82 J. Teleki, op. cit. (see note 2), X, p. 124. 83 Dl. 55.243, 44.340, 55.244, 55.245, 13.706. 84 Dl. 13.715. 85 The two voivodes are together at Szeged on 2 March 1443: Zimmermann-Wemer, Urkundenbuch, V, no. 2447. The charter published in ibidem, V, no. 2451, according to which Hunyadi would have stayed at Mediaş in Transylvania on 19 March 1443, seems in fact to have been issued on 9 July (feria tercia ante festum <Translacionis> beati Benedicti abbatis), though the charter mentions simply festum Benedicti; the voivode’s statement that he is just going to launch his expedition and is thus demanding wagons and other weapons from the burghers of Braşov would make no sense in March 1443, whereas it is perfectly in its place in the beginning of July, when Hunyadi's presence is clearly attested at Mediaş, cf. ibidem, V, no. 2461.
