### bandery, army of servant-soldiers
bandery (Italian bandiera = escutcheoned flag) Battalion, a group of soldiers. In the medieval Hungarian military srtucture banderies were set up according to Árpád age methods. In concert with this the king, the bishops, the barons and the provost of Aurania led their troops to war under their own battalions. In the royal bandery court warriors, in ecclesiastical and secular banderies familiares and other people of the estate, who owned military service to the lord, were obliged to fight. The organisation of banderies had significantly changed at the end of the Sigismund age: Lords of the biggest estates - no matter if they bore a title or not - had to set up a bandery. So they became barons, while the noblemen of the county had to join the county bandery. In the 15th century a bandery consisted of about 400 people. The organisation of banderies was not the merit of the Angevine rulers. TI army of servant-soldiers The decision of the 1379 diet at Temesvár to set up a new type of army. It was needed because of the huge private possessions, which were obtained by the donations at the beginning of the Sigismund age, and the defeat of the Hungarian army at Nicapoles (1396). We do not know whether it was for only one occasion or a longer period of time. The Expression 'army of servant-soldiers' was neither used by law nor later sources, it is a result of the word formation of historians. TI