Diaconescu, Marius (szerk.): Mediaevalia Transilvanica 1998 (2. évfolyam, 1. szám)
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The Political Relations between Wallachia and Hungary 33 in danger because of the Saxons' withdrawal from the army. Which was the motive of the Saxons' leaving? The leaving of Wallachia seems unlikely as only a defeat as those from 1330 and 1368 could have determined it. In this case even the bishops should have had to take a rapid refuge in Transylvania. The Hungarian historian, Kumorovitz L. Bernat, proposed as a possible interpretation a military conflict in the Făgăraş region, between an army belonging to the Romanian voivode, which defended his Transylvanian possession, and Hungarian troops, which aimed at retrieving them in the name of the king174 175. This assumption seems much more acceptable, as Făgăraş lay in the immediate neighbourhood of the Southern Transylvanian Saxons. Another clue which places these battles in the Făgăraş region is the king's request to the bishops: "we beseech you, for our sake, to guard and keep that place and send our missions their the best way you can...'"15. The royal troop commanders had thus to guard and keep a certain place. In any case, it was not situated in Wallachia. If there was the danger of a foray of the Romanian armies from the south of the Carpathians, this presumed the defeat of the Hungarian ones, which implied their hasty retreat. The tone of the letter does not infer that the king's situation would have still remained unstable at his new residence too176 177. The second army about which the king wrote to the bishops he would let them know if any news had occurred, was the one which took the action in Wallachia, probably towards the Severin region. At the beginning of September, Benedict Himffy scored a victory, as the Cenad bishop informs his wife: "magister Benedictus,... , victoriapotitus fulciatur"111. Where had those battles taken place? It could have been anywhere in Wallachia. It is more likely that the success was related to the Severin region. A subsequent counter-campaign is to be explained in these circumstances. During the first half of September the Timişoara region was devastated because of the conflicts in progress there178 179. The place of the happening, close to Severin, indicates the meaning of a campaign developed in order that the Romanian voivode should retrieve Severin. According to the Hungarian historian, one of the aims of the campaign was to stop the Turks' advance, who came closer to the Hungarian boundaries by means of the alliance with Wallachia's voivode. The second aim, which is apparent in the context of the battles from the south of Transylvania, was to recuperate the possessions from the unfaithful voivode: the duchy of Făgăraş and the Severin Banate'19. The first is only an assumption. The presence of the Turks is revealed by the accusations from 1374, implying that Vladislav Vlaicu was in alliance with the Turks. Their actual contribution to the battles becomes probable only in their quality as allies of the Romanian voivode especially on the occasion of the campaign in the Severin and Timiş regions during the autumn of 1375. One of 174 L. B. Kumorovitz, op. cit., p. 961. 175 Ibidem, p. 976. Ş. Papacostea, Domni români şi regi angevini, p. 121. 176 Ş. Papacostea, op. cit, p. 122. 177 L. B. Kumorovitz, op. cit., p. 976, doc. no. 5. 178 Ibidem, p. 977, doc. no. 6. 179 Ibidem, p. 967.
