Black Army of Hungary
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The Black Army, also called the Black Legion/Regiment – were the military forces serving under the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. The ancestor and core of this early standing mercenary ar
Coat of arms of Corvinus on the old Townhall of Görlitz guarded by a Black Army knight, as a sign that Görlitz belonged to the Hungarian crown under King Matthias (1488)
Top: Black Army knights fought with Ottoman cavalry. Bottom: training of knights. Engraving from the Thuróczy chronicle (1488)
Jörg Kölderer: A big caliber siege cannon from the "Elephant" series of Matthias Corvinus.
Saint George and Saint Florian, depicted in the armour suits of Black Army knights. Fresco of the Roman Catholic church of Pónik (now Póniky, Slovakia), 1478
Matthias Corvinus
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Matthias Corvinus was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1458 to 1490, as Matthias I. He is often given the epithet "the Just". After conducting several military campaigns, he was elected King of Bohemi
Black Army of Hungary
…Fekete sereg, pronounced , Latin: Legio Nigra), also called the Black Legion/Regiment – were the military forces serving under the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. The ancestor and core of this early standing mercenary army appeared in the era of his father John Hunyadi in the early 1440s. The idea of…
Portrait by Andrea Mantegna
The house where Matthias Corvinus was born in Kolozsvár (present-day Cluj-Napoca, Romania)
Matthias Corvinus as a young monarch. Museum of Sforza Castle, Milan, Italy.
King Matthias' arrival in Buda – a painting by Henrik Weber