A fejedelmi udvar az Erdélyi Fejedelemségben
The Princely Household in the Principality of Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The princely household meant a kind of narrowing of the court’s society as a travelling section of the central government offices (the chancellery and the treasury) which escorted the prince. It only changed in the case of national and regional assemblies. The leaders of the princely household were the main and the deputy stewards, the master of the horse, the captain general of the court and the valets/chamberlains (cubicularius). The steward of the household supervised the work of the master of the kitchen besides the work of the youths (valets, Lord High Stewards, table masters, cupbearers), furthermore, he also had control over the craftsmen and a part of the protectors of order (doorkeepers, couriers, postal youths). The head of stables directed the work of the stable, where a lot of people belonged to from the equerry to the stableboy, the coachman, the poundmaster and to the fowler. The court army (mounted soldiers and infantrymen) led by the captain general was headed by the captains of the court and had its lieutenants.

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