The first documentary testification of the first capital of the Romanian Country, Targoviste, dates from 1396 and can be found in the travel log of Johann Schiltberger, who took part in the battle of Nicopole.

The Royal Court's core was built in the age of the waivode Mircea cel Batran (Mircea the Old) and it was formed by a complex of structures intended to be inhabited by the royal family, the court's diplomats and their servants.

From this age and that of his direct descendants date the defence entrenchment, the first enclosure wall, the church with club shape surface from the northern side of the Court and the old royal house, from which only the cellar walls and, partially, the ground-floor walls are preserved.

Inside the residential area take shape more construction stages, from which the oldest is the Court elevated by Mircea cel Batran. It was composed of the royal house, the Southern gate and an enclosure wall, where the Chindia Tower was added om the inside. The first royal house was built on a rectangular surface, with the dimensions 29 X 32 m, composed of cellars and the ground floor, having walls of 2m thick. The cellars lie across the whole surface of the building and have four aisles separated by arches supported by massive pillars of masonry, a work at large scale in that age, being the first vaulted cellar from the romanian architecture. The entrance was on the west side, and the illumination was made through twelve elevated windows. Two stashes were built inside the cellar and were named by the inhabitants "the room of the executioner". The tall ground floor, mostly destroyed today, preserves architectural elements, vaults, halidoms of beams, illuminating gullets which help us understand the partial arrangement of the rooms. The residential chambers used by the regnant and his family seem to concentrate themselves on the east side, where we can distinguish a hall of large proportions, of 6 X 12 m, probably the place where the royal council gathered.