Golden Bull of Hungary issued
1222
Under baronial pressure, King Andrew II of Hungary issued a charter of noble liberties modeled on the new constitutionalism stirring Europe. It confirmed the right of magnates to resist a king who broke their privileges, a clause Hungarian nobles would invoke for centuries. Like the Magna Carta sealed seven years earlier, the Golden Bull became a foundational document of Hungarian constitutional tradition.
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High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.