What had happened to the urban courts of the Angevine dynasty and Sigismund of Luxembourg in Visegrád? Interpretation issues of archaeological find materials in the contextof the excavation of a medieval plot

Building research in Visegrád has a great past. While the investigations traditionally focused on the fortress system and the royal palace, settlement structure also got into the limelight in recent years. An important part of the history and topography of the medieval town has already been known from charters; however, only excavations can reveal more about the daily life of the one-time residents. By publishing the find material recovered by field projects in the medieval town, Visegrád became an important point of reference for the research of the material culture of urban settlements in the Kingdom of Hungary. The evaluation of the pottery record of the plot under 5 Rév Street is yet another chapter in this line of research. This record covers multiple historical periods from the time of the emergence of the town through the building of the first noble residences to the Late Middle Ages when the settlement became a market town, and illustrates excellently a characteristic of the settlement, namely that historical periods well-known from historical sources may only be present with an insignificant amount of find material in the archaeological record. Most people known from charters, belonging to the king’s inner circles and having a role in state administration, had a residence in the town. However, the find material connected to them is conspicuously missing, in a sharp contrast to the image of a varied and lavish urban life emerging from written sources.