Court accounts as a source of knowledge about the structure and composition of personnel at the royal court in the late medieval Poland

• Authors: Agnieszka Nalewajek
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

This article presents court accounts as a source for research on the structure of royal court personnel in late medieval Poland. It addresses issues related to the organisation of this state institution and the shape and functioning of the Polish royal court during the reign of Casimir IV Jagiellon (1447–1492) and John Albert (1492–1501). The few surviving account books contain payroll lists for people who served at the court and were part of the court household. The registers of John Albert’s horse courtiers are particularly valuable sources for research on the Polish royal court.

Keywords

EN

Polish royal court; Jagiellonian dynasty; royal accounts; court organisation

Discipline

• HISTORY: HISTORY

• Publisher: Institute of History, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Mediaevalia Historica Bohemica
• Year: 2023
• Volume: 26
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 89-101
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Agnieszka Nalewajek

• Historický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., Prosecká 809/76, 190 00 Praha 9, Czech Republic