The Diet of 1514, shocked by the …
Years: 1396 - 1539
The Diet of 1514, shocked by the peasant revolt, passes laws that condemn the serfs to eternal bondage and increase their work obligations.
Corporal punishment becomes widespread, and one noble even brands his serfs like livestock.
The legal scholar Stephen Werboczy includes the new laws in his Tripartitum of 1514, which will make make up Hungary's legal corpus until the revolution of 1848.
The Tripartitum give Hungary's king and nobles, or magnates, equal shares of power: the nobles recognize the king as superior, but in turn the nobles have the power to elect the king.
The Tripartitum also frees the nobles from taxation, obligates them to serve in the military only in a defensive war, and makes them immune from arbitrary arrest.
The new laws weaken Hungary by deepening the rift between the nobles and the peasantry just as the Turks prepare to invade the country.
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People
Groups
- Transylvania, region of
- Jews
- Germans
- Hungarian people
- Vlachs
- Slavs, West
- Slavonia region
- Serbs (South Slavs)
- Croats (South Slavs)
- Croatia, Kingdom of
- Slovaks (West Slavs)
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Cuman people, or Western Kipchaks, also called Polovtsy, Polovtsians)
- Croatia, Kingdom of
- Italians (Latins)
- Saxons, Transylvanian
- Székelys
- Austria, Archduchy of
- Bohemia, Kingdom of
- Poland of the later Piasts, Kingdom of
- Poland of the Jagiellonians, Kingdom of
- Union of Three Nations
- Turkish people
- Ottoman Empire
- Serbia, Ottoman
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Years: 1396 - 1539
Locations
People
Groups
- Transylvania, region of
- Jews
- Germans
- Hungarian people
- Vlachs
- Slavs, West
- Slavonia region
- Serbs (South Slavs)
- Croats (South Slavs)
- Croatia, Kingdom of
- Slovaks (West Slavs)
- Hungary, Kingdom of
- Cuman people, or Western Kipchaks, also called Polovtsy, Polovtsians)
- Croatia, Kingdom of
- Italians (Latins)
- Saxons, Transylvanian
- Székelys
- Austria, Archduchy of
- Bohemia, Kingdom of
- Poland of the later Piasts, Kingdom of
- Poland of the Jagiellonians, Kingdom of
- Union of Three Nations
- Turkish people
- Ottoman Empire
- Serbia, Ottoman
Topics
Commodoties
Subjects
Regions
Subregions