Religious Architecture of the military Orders in Medieval Slavonia and its Reflections in the 13^th and 14^th Century

The architecture of the military orders in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary-Croatia, in Medieval Slavonia, is a highly complex phenomenon. In many cases (except the churches in Gora and Našice), the attribution of the churches to the building activity of the military orders is based solely on the assumed connection between the estates mentioned in the literary sources and the actual churches built on their vaguely bordered territory. That makes the Templar or Hospitaller provenance of such buildings highly dubious. The knightly orders constitute a significant factor in the definition of the feudal landscape during the 13^th and at the beginning of the 14^th century, but in most cases, much more caution, as well as further research is needed before the final attribution of the medieval architecture existing in that area to the military orders.