The National Archives of Hungary (Budapest, 2006)
NATIONAL ARCHIVES AND SPECIAL ARCHIVES OF NATIONAL COLLECTION - Hungarian National Archives by Géza Érszegi and István G. Vass
product of treasury bodies: the accounts of lawyer domains, correspondence of their officers among each other and with their supervisors, accounts of mines, reports about productions, their payrolls, receipts of the thirtieth parts, accounts and documents of rent of the tenth. But the written records of principalities and their authorities are considerably fragmented. On the other hand, after upon the death of a prince, family members took the part of the archives with themselves, that shouldn't have been left behind, even though obliged by the laws and under the current practice of the public law. So documents of certain princes nowadays can be found in the archives of various family archives. Certain documents of some princes whose functional centre used to be in Hungary still managed to be involved in the archives of Hungarian chamber. Some of the documents of the two Kuruts leaders called Thököly and Ferenc Rákóczi II ended up there only by accident. The other source to expansion was the fact that the archives of the families and individual people were included in the archives of the Chapter. In addition, it contains a greater quantity of accounts about supplying the army from the 17 th century and they have also found their way in the archives The Transylvanian (in the settlement of Gyulafehérvár) episcopacy was re-founded in 1715. Then King Károly (Charles III) ordered that this archive examined there. A committee was sent in 1756; and which to examine the condition of the archives, which made a kind of delimitation in the material of different, origin provenance accumulated over a period of time. The quantity of the archives was decreased because of establishment of the Transylvanian Fiscal National Archives in 1769, which held the documents dealing with ensuring treasury rights. The independent history of the National Archives was held in the settlement of Gyulafehérvár until 1882. An act was legislated to unify the material of public archives with the material of the Hungarian National Archives. But its name remained: Authentic / national / archives of Chapter of the settlement of Gyulafehérvár and the Convent of the settlement of Kolozsmonostor, which is not an exact name. After Transylvania had been subjected to the rule of Hapsburg dynasty, the office of the Gubernium was established in 1693 The official in such a position as the Transylvanian, acted as governor general. Originally the Gubernium was to be set up in the settlement of Gyulafehérvár; however, its capital was in the settlement of Nagyszeben during the 18 th century- later in the town of Kolozsvár. As an institution subordinated to Transylvanian Chancellery sitting in Vienna it played a similar role in Transylvania and later formed a separate principality, later Grand Duchy 1765, as the Council of governor-general inside the Hapsburg Monarchy in Hungary. Several other committees worked together within the Chancellery, too, such as the military, taxation, commercial, trade, health committees and censorship.
