A lázadás ára
The Price of the Rebellion

Summary/Abstract: The study describes the process of retorsion and reconciliation after the collapse of the rebellion that has been arisen against the rule of King Matthias in 1467. It briefly reviews the motive which has led to the rebellion: the decreeing of the collection of the King’s tax called “lucrum camerae” under a new designation, as a tax of the King’s treasury. This new type of tax, which was mainly new in its designation, terminated the exemption of the Transylvanian serfs from the payment of the ”lucrum camerae”, which freedom they have enjoyed since the rule of King Louis I. At the same time they were obliged to pay the new tax. The decision that has come in the 1st of April, 1467, in Buda, has led to general discontentedness in the country and undisguised resistance in Transylvania. After the breaking down of the armed resistance Matthias has started to the punishment of the rebels at the beginning of October. Twelve people died on the block and as a general punishment the blood-wit of the Transylvanian nobility – which was 200 golden forints consistently with that of the nobility living in the western parts of Hungary –, has been reduced to 60 golden forints. (The executions has happened in three places: in Nagyszeben, at the second half of October, in Brassó, after Christmas and in Kolozsvár, sometime in the middle of January.) The confiscation of the demesnes of the rebels has started at the end of September, and the distribution of their properties has lasted for more than a year. During the confiscation the owner of twelve castles from the Hungary and Transylvania has been changed and the number of the smaller and bigger tenures (market-town, village, farmstead) which had got new owners, exceeded the three hundred.

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