Our study aims to illustrate how Romanians, and mainly their political elite, were reflected in 14th century documents, by the way they related to the kingdom's central government, and to understand the reasons leading to the shaping of negative, or, as the case may be, positive images of Romanians. Our analysis and interpretation of documents took into account the internal and external circumstances of the time, the ethnic, confessional and political particuliarities of Romanians inside the kingdom, the two-centuries long shaping of positive or negative stereotypes about Romanians It is known that, during the Middle Ages, there were different types of solidarity, leading to the images, the stereotypes about the "others", the foreigners, the conquered ones, whose religion and confession were different to those of the conquerors, who belonged to another social structure, spoke a different language and had different origins. Romanians in Transylvania and outside the borders of the kingdom are generally presented in dark colours; they are the ones who set fires and rebel, they are killers and charismatic, in touch with the Romanians outside the Carpathian arch and, therefore, are not very reliable. The tone describing the Romanians gets tougher when diplomatic and military conflicts appear between the Kingdom of Hungary and Moldavia. In those moments, with few exceptions, the allegations againts Romanians increase in intensity and tone. In Transylvania, the Romanian knezes and princes competed for advantages from the king. The king was much more open to the knezes and princes willing to support the royal policy. The Hungarian sovereigns reconfirmed the privileges of some of them, while fewer others were raised to the true nobility of the kingdom. A part of the Romanian elite, however, acted against the central government, in various forms. The Hungarian kings acted differently towards the knezes and princes opposing central government. As for the monikers used especially for Romanians in Transylvania, and generally for those outside the borders, by the political power in the kingdom of Hungary, the main cause for the negative image of Romanians, as reflected in the official documents, it is due to the gestures and acts of disloyalty and treason by a part of of the Romanian elite in Transylvania and princes in Wallachia and Moldavia. The terms most frequently present in documents are: treachery, disloyalty, guile and infidelity. They are directly linked to the Romanian knezes' and princes' anti-royal actions. Consequently, the main cause of the presence of these terms must be linked directly to the suzerainty-vassalage relations between the king of Hungary and the Romanian elite. Romanian origin and belonging to Orthodoxy completed the monikers used by the central power for the Romanian elite opposing its centralising and conquest policy.
