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Gál-Mlakár Viktor: Komlóska-Pusztavár régészeti feltárásának eredményei

Németh Péter 1996 Tolcsva a mohácsi vész előtt. Tokaj és Hegyalja XVII. Szerk. Bencsik János, Antal Gábor. Tokaj Nováki Gyula-Sárközi Sebestyén-Feld István 2007 Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye várai az őskortól a kuruc korig. BudapestMiskolc Polla, Béla 1964 Stredoveky hradok v Obisovciach Slovenska Archeológia 2. 467^184. Pusztai Tamás 2007 A keleméri Mohosvár. Egy 13-14. században használt vár kutatásának lehetőségei. Castrum 1. szám 39-64. Sztáray 1887-1889 A nagymihályi és sztáray gróf Sztáray család oklevéltára. I. Szerk. Nagy Gyula. Budapest Tamás Edit 1998 Komlóska. Komlóska ZSO 1950-2003 Zsigmond-kori oklevéltár. Szerk. Borsa Iván, Mályusz Elemér, C. Tóth Norbert. I—II., IV-V. Budapest Zsoldos Attila 2001 Karászi Sándor bán és utódai. Századok 385^107. ARCHAEOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS AT KOMLÓSKA-PUSZTAVÁR Komlóska-Pusztavár [Puszta Castle], known as Sólymos in the Middle Ages, was built on one of the 426 m high andesite rocks in the southern rangé of the Zemplén Mountains. The castle was built by the Tolcsva kindrcd, the landowners in this area. Analogies to the castle's unusual ground plán - two main areas, each with a round tower, separated by a wall - are unknown in Hungary. The castle, whose walls survive to a height of 4-5 m in somé spots, was built on the plateau of the steep Pusztavár-tető Mountain tovvering above the villages of Komlóska and Erdőhorváti. The totál length of the roughly óval stronghold is 110 m, its width is 30-35 m on the average, covering an area of roughly 0.3 hectares. The sources are silent as regards the castle's construction. It seems likely that it was built in the last third of the 13th century, a period hallmarked by the erection of castles, whose primary function was to symbolise the power of their owner. The first mention of the Tolcsva kindred dates from the mid-13th century, when the kindred had already split intő two branches. Uza magister, a descendant of the Uz branch, had left the service of Amadé Aba immcdiately before the Battle of Rozgony and he could thus kecp his estates. The sovereign himself, King Charles Róbert acted as the godfather of his son Jakab. László Tolcsvai, a member of the kindred's Langeus branch, was raised in the royal court. As a familiáris of Miklós Sirokai, he acted as the vice-voevod of Transylvania in 1343-44. Two members from the kindred's Langeus branch feli in the Battle of Nikápoly at the close of the 14th century. Pál Tolcsvai, the family's last living aduit male member, died in the summer of 1415. His young son, László, passed away in 1418, and the family thus became extinct. Their estates were divided between the heirs in the female line (the Csicseri Ormos, the Sóos and the Upor families). 112