Somogyvári Ágnes et al. (szerk.): Településtörténeti kutatások - Archaelogia Cumanica 3. (Kecskemét, 2014)
Castrum Tétel program (Solt–Tételhegy) eredmények és perspektívák - Zsoldos Attila: Tétel középkori birtokosai
Attila Zsoldos The medieval landowners of Tétel ZSOLDOS ATTILA: TÉTEL KÖZÉPKORI BIRTOKOSAI Without any exaggeration, Solt-Tételhegy and its broader area played a prominent role in Hungarian history after 900, even if historians differ as to whether this region had been the settlement territory of the Hungarian tribe headed by Árpáds descendants from the very beginning, or whether it rose to prominence at some later date, following one or more migrations from the initial settlement territory. What is certain is that by the last third of the 10th century, modern Solt-Tételhegy and its broader area had been the settlement territory of the Árpáds. The area’s early history is barely known owing to the lack of written sources. What seems certain is that Tétel cannot be identified with Titel, a settlement lying near the confluence of the Tisza and Danube rivers, where King St. László (1077-1095) and his younger brother Prince Lampert founded a collegial chapter at the close of the 11th century. However, it is possible that a part of the data associated with Titel in County Bács actually refers to Tétel in County Fejér. One case in point is the world map of Idrisi, the Sicilian Arab geographer, completed in 1154: the geographic location of Titel, described as a prominent settlement, which has generally been identified with Titel in County Bács, fits Tétel much better. Virtually nothing is known about the landowners of Tétel before 1301. The situation is better from the 14th century onward, even if there remain a few blank spots. We know that the settlement came into the possession of several landowners during the 14th century, the most significant among them being the Treutel family, whose members rose to prominent positions as barons until the family’s extinction in the 1420s. However, the centre of the Treutels’ estates lay not in this region, but in County Pozsega south of the River Drava. After the extinction of the Treutels, King Zsigmond (1387-1437) donated their estates in the Tétel area to the landowner family living in neighbouring Tetétlen. The Tetétleni family became extinct around the turn of 15th-16th centuries; a part of their estates was acquired by members of the Parlagi family before the close of the 15th century, another part by Balázs Ráskai, one of the confidantes of King Mátyás (1458-1490). 233
