Castle warrior

[8][11] For instance, a castle warrior who had departed from his lord was "regarded as a fugitive in the same way as a runaway serf" (Pál Engel).

[1] Thus both the heads of the "hundreds" (the basic units of the administration of a district), and the officers of the military contingent of the castle were always chosen from among their number.

[15] However, King Andrew II (1205–1235) distributed large parcels of "castle lands" (sometimes whole counties) among his followers.

This resulted in a significant number of castle warriors losing their direct contact with the monarchs and becoming subject to the authority of other lords.

[11] Even the status of those who remained on castle lands were threatened from the 1370s by the emerging idea of "royal right".

[16] According to this concept, all land that was not owned by the nobility or an ecclesiastic body belonged to the monarch, thus the property rights of those who had not been ennobled could be questioned.