Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis. – Alba Regia. Az István Király Múzeum Évkönyve. 20. 1980 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: C sorozat (1983)

Tanulmányok – Abhandlungen - Kralovászky Alán: The earliest church of Alba Civitas. p. 75–88. t. XXVII–XXXII.

Fig. 7: Székesfehérvár, historic city core. Level lined map with earth-fortress and churches from the Arpadian era. opposed to the tradition of his predecessors who were crowned in the royal cathedral. The distance between the old and new churches is some two meters. Obviously, the old church must have been demolished to provide space for the construction and use for the new one. By this reasoning this was also the last possible year in which the church could have'been torn down. It is also possible that the church and priest which practiced the Greek liturgy stopped functioning this year. According to the decree of the IV. Lateran Synod which met in 1215, churches using Greek liturgy had to be liquidated (TIMKÓ 1971, 414). The ashes of Grand Duke Géza were apparently exhumed. If he had ever had a tombstone of sarcophagus it was later transferred to the new church (Kralovánszky 1968, 85—92). Dlugos, the bishop of Krakow, took part in the coronation of Ulászló I. in Fehérvár in 1440. It was at this time when he may have noticed that Grand Duke Géza was buried in the St. Peter's church (Györffy 1967, 21—22). The building and its surroundings in the organization of the settlement As was explained above, the stronghold, probably reinforced by fortification ditches and a defensive log wall as well, was built in the last third of the 10th century. St. Peter's church was located in the middle of this area. It is likely that the various fortification features were constructed before the erection of the church. This is to say that the stronghold was not built primarily to defend the church. The construction of the fortifications was rather made necessary by the organization and maintenance of the centralized power. The inner area of the stronghold was approximately 100 by 80 meters (8000 square meters). Of this territory, approximately 15 by 15 meters (225 square meters) were occupied as a construction site for the church. This part of the area probably had been an open place before building began. The church itself was not built in the exact center of this reused lot. The center of the church 35