The city of Požega was documented for the first time as the fortress (castrum de Posega) in a charter of Pope Honorius III when he mentioned the king Andrew II of Hungary (1205-1235) on January 11, 1227. This charter had been occured some years before and implied the selling of Požega and its goods to Ugrin, the archbishop of Kalocsa. At the same time he offered the spiritual support in the fight against the Bogomil influence from Bosnia. After the archbishop's withdrawal from Požega this role was taken by the collegiate chapter of St. Peter and the Franciscans. At the beginning of the 14th century the parish with its St. Paul Church and the Dominican order with its St. Maria Church (later St. Lawrence) were documented.
The first mention of the county is found in the writings (1210 and 1221) as the center of the county prefect Ladislav. It consisted of the region around Papuk and Krndija in the North, the eastern border of Granica and Nevna (Levanjska varoš), the western river Lešnica (Sloboština), Psunj, the stream Brzaja to Papuk and in the South the river Sava.
Požega came under the Hungarian control ( by Queen Maria, the wife of King Bela III of Hungary and later by Queen Elisabeth , the wife of King Stephen V (1270-1272) ) and was ruled from the middle of the 13th century to the beginning of the 15th century. Moreover Požega was governed by the duchess of Slavonia, Mačva and Bosnia, and in the end of the 13th century Tomassina Morosini , the mother of King Andrew III (1290- 1301) representing the last monarch of the Arpads dynasty.
In that period of the Anžuvinci period Croatia and Slavonia were agitated by the conflicts between the King Karl I Robert's Croatian adherents, but the riots continued until the second half of the 14th century.
According to the sources from 1330 the town magistrate was mentioned for the first time, which means that Požega was the exception in the county and governor authority and that it had the right of self-government. In the 15th century the city came under the rule of wealthy lords.