sentences:  Several speculations arose about the army's name.The first recorded accounts using "black" description appear in written memoranda immediately after Hunyady's death, when the rest of the army was pillaging Hungarian, and later Austrian, villages when they were receiving no pay.One idea is that they adopted the adjective from a captain, "Black" John Haugwitz, whose nickname already earned him enough recognition to be identified with the army as a whole.