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Congregatio generalis palatini was one of the judicial forums in medieval Hungary for almost two centuries. At the congregatio the Palatine presided over law cases of the inhabitants of one or more counties. The golden age of this institution was during the reign of King Charles I and his son, Louis the Great. In 1486 congregatio generalis palatini was abolished by the act of King Matthew I. William Druget was the last Palatine (1334-1342) of Charles I. The assemblies were not held regularly during the palatinate of William Druget, only in every other year and mostly in the north-northeastern part of Hungary. In Transylvania the voivode, in the southern parts the banus had the right to hold general assemblies. Usually these assemblies were held next to a village or a town in a field, because large crowd gathered there. The ideal season was spring, summer and autumn. From 1298 it was forbidden to hold assemblies in winter. The place of these assemblies was neither constant. Sometimes it changed every year, but some villages or towns became permanent locations for years. These assemblies were held for one or two counties. Sometimes happened, that three counties participated in one general assembly. Some counties had constanst pair, for example Szabolcs and Bereg, Bihar and Kraszna, Pest and Pilis, Nógrád and Hont, Szatmár and Ugocsa, Zemplén and Ung, Trencsén and Nyitra. During this period general assemblies lasted for at least 4-6 days