Around 1440, he went to Upper Hungary, where from 1443, under the command of John Jiskra of Brandýs – a Hussite general, a subject of the Hungarian king Ladislaus the Posthumous, he served as captain of Spiš Castle.

This decision resulted in sending Hungarian troops of Ladislaus Hunyadi against him, which a few months later besieged and captured his previous seat – Spiš Castle.

[4] After the death of Ladislaus the Posthumous, he supported the election of Matthias Corvinus to the Hungarian throne, but came into conflict with him, which ended with his troops participating in the Battle of Sárospatak.

It was named in memory of Peter Aksamit's troops stationed in nearby Haligovce, who – as Onufry Trembecki reported in 1861 – was supposed to have ... his main maidan here, from where he kept the entire Hungarian foothills at bay.

During his life, he signed as: "Peter Aksamit from Kosov, commander-in-chief of the Bratříci, residing in the Zelená Hora camp near Hrabušice and at the Plaveč Castle".