This was the foundation of the full martial arts for respective centuries. However, while the call for knighthood to fight the enemy took tests in the 12th or 13th centuries, the end of the era was considered an archaic solution.
As prof. Jarema Maciszewski commented, in the 15th century, “a knighthood across Europe came down from battlefields”, replaced by armies made up of paid soldiers. These, too, were frequently nobles, but not sent to conflict by a jump, under a common command, but fighting at their own will. In a word – they were professionals for whom the warrior was a career. In the fresh system, it was considered the work of the general nobility to settle, not to stand up with horses and arms at the place of collection, but to pay the taxes needed to recruit the army. As a result, modern armies were frequently little numerous, but much better trained, armed and disciplined – at least in terms of discipline during battle.
Abnormal value
so-called universal expeditions, expeditio generali, came out in Poland as early as in neighbouring countries. There was already mention of the foundation stone of the Nobility – a privilege from 1454, forced not elsewhere, but in the camp of common departure, erstwhile the gathered threatened that without the king's general concessions they would not join the fight against the Teutonic Knights. You should complete the second part of the story. The privilege of the church was released on September 15. 3 days later, the Polish army, composed in the vast majority of the noble masses, entered the conflict with the weaker spiritual army. On the Polish side there were 16 1000 ridings and at least respective 100 infantry soldiers. On the Teutonic side – about 15,000 all armed. However, it was a professional army. The Polish forces were killed, untrained nobles easy panicked and rushed to escape. In the face of the common reiterade, the king was besides forced to leave the battlefield. At least 3,000 people died, including respective chief commanders, 3 100 knights were taken prisoner. By comparison, the spiritual army lost only a 100 soldiers. As the best investigator of the subject, prof. Marian Biskup stressed, the same terrible disaster has never happened before in the turbulent past of Polish-Crescent relations. After the battle, however, neither the privileges for which the nobles could not work with weapons were cancelled, nor even extremist military reforms were introduced.
