ABSTRACT
This paper focuses on the ways in which the rulers of Hungary influenced the activity of the Hungarian–Slavonian priory of the Hospital from the mid-fourteenth century. It should be said at the outset that it is not possible to construct a full narrative of the events in this period as the disparate nature of the sources prevents us from tracing developments in their entirety, but there are certain moments in the history of the Hospital in medieval Hungary for which there are sufficient records at our disposal for scholarly investigation. Secondly, there are a number of features that reveal that the affairs of the Hungarian–Slavonian priory diverged from general Hospitaller policy and, from the mid-fourteenth century onwards, were increasingly influenced by the Hungarian rulers. Thirdly, it is very likely that not all the questions raised will be answered satisfactorily in the course of this survey, as the history of the priory in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries has not been studied in depth since the 1920s.
