The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)
ECCLESIASTICAL ARCHIVES - An Overview of Catholic Ecclesiastical Archives by Andor Lakatos
owned separate farm land independent of bishop's domains, consequently, they possessed economic-agricultural, domanial documents as well. In the archives of authentic places, (or with other name national) the following documents can be found: files of registered properties, observations, visitations on royal invitations, confessions in front of chapters, wills are mentioned many times in the introduction. The Catholic Ecclesiastical Archives have a substantial quantity of medieval documents due to the enormous collection of these materials. 3) The 'reflection' of parishes can be found in the bishops' archives Most of the documents are on bishopric correspondence and what is original here has to be composition in the other place and vice versa. But the situation is more complicated because of the loss of the documents in both places and quantity. The documents held in parishes can be completed with official letters, valuable local listings, censuses, 'história domus' written about the history of the parish, documents of school board, sometimes of guilds, later the records of associations and the documents of rural dean districts. The nomination of the rural dean was predicated on personal relationships, not to place, therefore, for this reason, the documents of certain districts can be found in the archives of parishes. 4) In the archives of monastic orders there were the central governmental files, the documents of different monasteries, abbeys and institutions; schools, colleges can be found separately. Even agricultural documents that survived from farmer-monks. The number of deposits was large and significant because monks took pleasure in maintaining the archives for the monasteries. There Medieval document from the material of the Győr Chapter ( The Archives of Győr Diocese )
