Unio Trium Nationum

Unio Trium Nationum (Latin for "Union of the Three Nations") was a pact of mutual aid codified in 1438 by three Estates of Transylvania: the (largely Hungarian) nobility, the Saxon (German) patrician class (represented by the Transylvanian Saxon University),^[1] and the free military Székelys.^[2]^{[clarification needed]} The union was directed against the whole of the peasantry, regardless of ethnicity, in response to the Transylvanian peasant revolt.^[3]

In this typical feudal estate parliament, the peasants (whether Hungarian, Saxon, Székely, or Romanian in origin) were not represented, and they did not benefit from its acts,^[4] as the commoners were not considered to be members of these feudal "nations".^[5]

^ Mircea Dogaru; Mihail Zahariade (1996). History of the Romanians: From the origins to the modern age, Volume 1 of History of the Romanians, History of the Romanians. Amco Press. p. 148. ISBN 9789739675598.
^ László Fosztó (2009). Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion Among Roma in a Transylvanian Village. LIT Verlag. p. 44. ISBN 9783643101754.
^ László Fosztó: Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion among Roma in a Transylvanian Village, Halle-Wittenberg, 2007 [1]
^ Ştefan Pascu (1990). A History of Transylvania. Dorset Press. p. 101. ISBN 9780880295260.
^ Lucian Leuștean (2014). Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Southeastern Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 132. ISBN 9780823256068.

[1] Mircea Dogaru; Mihail Zahariade (1996). History of the Romanians: From the origins to the modern age, Volume 1 of History of the Romanians, History of the Romanians. Amco Press. p. 148. ISBN 9789739675598.

[2] László Fosztó (2009). Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion Among Roma in a Transylvanian Village. LIT Verlag. p. 44. ISBN 9783643101754.

[Foszto2007-3] László Fosztó: Ritual Revitalisation After Socialism: Community, Personhood, and Conversion among Roma in a Transylvanian Village, Halle-Wittenberg, 2007 [1]

[4] Ştefan Pascu (1990). A History of Transylvania. Dorset Press. p. 101. ISBN 9780880295260.

[5] Lucian Leuștean (2014). Orthodox Christianity and Nationalism in Nineteenth-century Southeastern Europe. Oxford University Press. p. 132. ISBN 9780823256068.

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