 The Knights also received the "Land of Severin" ("Terra de Zeurino"), along with the nearby mountains, from Béla IV of Hungary, as shown by a charter of grant issued on 2 June 1247.The Banate of Severin was a march, or border province, of the Kingdom of Hungary between the Lower Danube and the Olt River, today part of Romania, and back then bordered across the Danube by a powerful Bulgarian Empire.However, the Hospitaller hold on the Banate was only brief.