Vászoly György stood at the head of his army. By Hungarian law, he was technically considered a nobleman of higher standing within the Kingdom, but it was difficult to define his actual place in the hierarchy. After all, the Hungarians did not exactly have a complex system of hereditary titles, unlike western Europe. At least not at this point in time. However, in terms of wealth and power, the man was akin to a Grand Duke, practically a monarch in his own right, and distantly related to the Royal Family.
It was because of this that the Hungarian monarch had tasked him to lead one of the give armies that were sent to war against the Byzantine Empire. Unfortunately, the campaign through the Dinaric Alps resulted in a stalemate, where the Byzantine Forces under the command of Strategos Palladius Angelus had entrenched their position and halted all Hungarian advances.
