The Tsangos of Romania - Corvinus Library - Hungarian History

constant danger by inviting the German Knights of HospitalOrder of St. Marien, headed by Hermann de Salza to protectHungary's borders. He gave them land and priveleges / they didnot have to pay taxes, could choose their own judges, couldkeep the gold or silver they found on their land etc./. Soon theking realized that he was not profiting much from thisarrangement and decided to break off his deal with the Germanknights and fill the posts on the border with his own knights.But because of the aproaching of the Tartars. he made peacewith the Germans and instead of sending them away, he gavemore land to them. They started building stone forts instead ofthe wooden ones they had erected earlier. New towns appearedwith German names but Hungarian names of towns, rivers canbe detected. This also supports the fact that some Hungariansdid stay behind outside of the Carpathians. They are refered toby Endre the second, as "our people" distinguishing them fromthe Saxon "guests". They were the first Hungarians inMoldavia.In 1223, the German knights asked the help of the popefor them to belong to the Holy See but what they were reallythinking of was, founding their own state which would havebeen independent from Hungary. In April 1224, the popeannounced that the land of the German knights belonged to theHoly See and that no Hungarian bishops or archbishops couldinterfere in their affairs.By 1225, there was a bitter conflict between the king andthe Germans, since the knights were starting to occupy landwhich did not belong to them. The pope, after receiving lettersfrom both sides, from the king who demanded that the knightsleave the country immediately and from also the knights, theywere demanding help from the pope against the Hungarians whomeanwhile had invaded their land, taxing the people andburning their castles, he decided to settle the problem by sendingthe bishop of Györ and Nagyvárad to look into the matter. Hefound that the Germans had started occupying more land andalso that the king had taken matters into his hands and driven theGermans out of the country. Endre the second, did not leave theborderline empty, but sent his own men there. This became thesecond time that Hungarians went to live in Moldavia. Theirdescendants became part of the Csángó people living today.Rome had always put a great emphasis on converting thepagan people. In this plan Hungary, sharing borders with the