The castle folk (Hungarian: várnép, Latin: castrenses or civis)[1] formed a class of freemen, in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, who were obliged to provide well-specified services to a royal castle and its ispán, or count.[2][3] They were peasants living in villages formed in the lands pertaining to the royal castle [4] and tilled their estates collectively.[4]
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