ABSTRACT
A certain knowledge of Hungarian society is required in order to interpret several of the phenomena encountered, such as the predial nobles of the Hospitallers and their iobagiones (peasant tenants), although it is impractical to enumerate all the thirteenth-and fourteenth-century changes which characterized Hungarian society, even though it would lead us to a more profound understanding of Hospitaller estate management. Moreover, most of the landed properties except for the Templar possessions were acquired before 1301, while the majority of the extant sources were issued in the fourteenth century. Thus, in this reconstruction, we are limited mainly to the Angevin period between 1301 and 1387.
