Horváth M. Ferenc (szerk.): Vác The heart of the Danube Bend. A historical guide for residents and globetrotters (Vác, 2009)
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VÁC IN THE ÁRPÁD ERA (895-1 301 ) 63 i ne excavation in me iviain square backs, facing east.The graveyard must have been divided off the other, secular part of the Main Square by either a ditch or a hedge or a combination of the two. (The stone wall of the graveyard found during the excavations in 2003-2005 could not have been built earlier than the 15th century.) The church was first mentioned in the charter of the Augustinian Monastery of St Jacob in 1319. According to the document the northern borderline of the monastery situated in the area between the present Fürdő Street and the Main Square ran along the graveyard of the church. A large number of tombs were found inside the church as well. Parish priests and other clergymen, judges, jurors and respectable citizens were buried here. 14th century tombstones found during the excavation in the Main Square (PMMI-TIM) The two people whose graves were covered with huge carved tombstones weighing several hundred kilos must have belonged among the leaders of the town. We can assume that they were rich citizens of the town with a house in the Main Square, vineyards and ploughfields on the confines of the town cultivated by the poor casual labourers of the Hungarian and the German town. They were often involved in trade thus spending most of their time far away from home, rattling about in their carts or on horseback in Hungary or some neighbouring countries, or tossed about in ships. Both of them owned coats of arms, which were carved on their tombstones praising their self-respect and wealth. (Unfortunately we do not know the colours of their coats of arms.) The style of the tombstones reveals that their owners died at the beginning of the 1300s, during the struggles for the throne following the extinction of the House of Árpád, or after the victory of King Charles I of the Angevin Dynasty. St Michael's Church with the fencing wall and the graves
