The mercenary soldiers of other countries in the era were conscripted from the general population at times of crisis, and soldiers worked as bakers, farmers, brick-makers, etc. Hungary's Black Army traditionally encompasses the years from 1458 to 1494.
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The idea of the professional standing mercenary army came from Matthias' juvenile readings about the life of Julius Caesar. The ancestor and core of this early standing mercenary army appeared in the era of his father John Hunyadi in the early 1440s. The Black Army ( Hungarian: Fekete sereg, pronounced, Latin: Legio Nigra), also called the Black Legion/Regiment – possibly after their black armor panoply – is a common name given to the military forces serving under the reign of King Matthias Corvinus of Hungary. Pál Kinizsi, Balázs Magyar, Imre Zápolya, John Giskra, John Haugwitz, František Hag, Vuk Grgurević, Đorđe Branković Holy Roman Empire, Bohemia, Poland, Serbia, Bosnia, Moldavia, Wallachia, Italy The reconstruction preserves the original colour. The black colour of the flag used to be white (argent), but the argent paint oxidized. This characteristic flag with a forked tail was reconstructed after a miniature in Philostratus Chronicle, one of the Corvinas, representing the 1485 entry of János Corvinus, son of King Matthias, into Vienna. Hungarian, Czech (Bohemian, Moravian, Silesian), Polish, Croatian, Serbian, Wallachian, Bavarian, Austrian, SwissĬavalry, infantry, artillery, siege weapons 1494 (due to money shortage and mercenary uprising)