Erdős Ferenc - Fülöp Gyula - Szakály Ferenc: Polgárdi története - Fejér Megyei Levéltár közleményei 22. (Székesfehérvár, 1997)

The history of Polgárdi

tions still affect vividly. In the 15th century Polgárdi started developing again, the parish church consacrated to Saint John the evangelist is known from this century. The period of King Mátyás' (Matthias) reign (1458-1490) resulted in economic stability.The years after the loss of the Battle of Mohács (1526) brought about the most significant trials of any time. After the occupation of Székesfehérvár by the Turks the inhabitants of Polgárdi bore multiple burdens. They „served" the Turkish landlord and the Batthyány family at the same time. After the construction of the Turkish administration, the settlement became the part of the nahije of Székesfehérvár. It belonged to a part of Fejér County where the Hungarian garrisons of the castles of Palota (Várpalota) and Veszprém were able to assure their supremacy even when the administration was abolished in Fejér County in 1543 and it was not reorganized during the period of the Turkish occupation. The settlements on the right bank of the Sárvíz did not escape the attention of the Hungarian administration. Polgárdi sometimes belonged to the „supervision" of the castle of Palota, sometimes to that of Veszprém County. The first decades of the Turkish occupation went by in relative peace. The population learned the burdens of dual tribute. The croptithe was given to the Turkish landlord, a groundrent of 50-60 forints and a poll tax of 80 forints were paid every year. The transportation of 38 carts of firewood for the Turkish garrison stationing in Székesfehérvár belonged to their services in kind. They owed the Batthyány family a cropninth. The 15-year war - broken out in 1593 - meant a break in the history of Polgárdi. The inhabitants left and and migrated to the safer west-Hungarian territories. The newer and newer encounters between the Christian and the Turkish troops finally caused the depopulation and the devastation of the village. Four decades later in 1630 it was repopulated. The foundation of the Calvinist Congregation took place in this decade as well. Székesfehérvár was liberated from the Turkish occupation on 19th March. „Alba Regalis recuperata", was announced in the