Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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68 VÁC'S REMAINS FROM THE LATE MIDDLE AGES (1301-1 526) Marble relief of King Matthias I from there and forced the peasants to work on the fortification of the castle. The case is not likely to have had any political motivations, it was simply part of medieval law and order. However, 14 years later foreign armies appeared on the scene. In 1471 János Vitéz, Archbishop of Esztergom plotted against King Matthias and invited the Polish- Lithuanian Jagiello (spelt as Jagelló in Hungarian) Dynasty to provide the new king of Hungary. The armies of the Vienna in the 15th century Polish Prince Casimir marched towards the middle of the country but meeting neither resistance nor support. They disappointedly proceeded northwards across the hills of the Cserhát north-east of Vác. From then on until the first occupation of Buda in 1526 by the Ottomans Vác lived in peace. During the Matthias era two political events occurred in the town. In May 1462, after a long-term hostility, negotiations between King Matthias and János Jiskra, the Habsburg-supporter nobleman from Upper Hungary and mercenary leader of Czech origin, took place here. As a result of the negotiations Jiskra surrendered to the king, yielded the castles under his control, and in return was granted some estates in the southern parts of the country in Arad and Krasso counties (in present-day Romania).The agreement was a significant event being the final act of a civil war that had lasted for over two decades. In 1485 a diet ms held in Vác.The king could not take part in it because he was busy laying siege to Vienna in Austria, so he was represented by his envoys. We know of only one decree of the meeting of moderate importance: they passed the one forint extra war levy required by the king. THE BISHOPRIC ANDTHE BISHOPS Throughout the Middle Ages Vác was an episcopal see. The bishopric endowed the town with a peculiar character and the episcopal see contributed to its development. This was the place where the prospective priests of the diocese studied, the clergy came for diocesan councils and the ecclesiastical court of the county held its sessions. Before Easter most of the priests visited the town in order to attend the ceremony of the consecration of the oil. The Bishopric of Vác was bordered by the rivers Zagyva and Ipoly in the north, the Danube in Warriors
