Berecz Mátyás - Rémiás Tibor (szerk.): Végvár társadalma a korszakváltás idején - Studia Agriensia 30. (Eger, 2012)
SZ1RÁCSIK ÉVA: "ottan katona volt” A végvári katonák és leszármazottaik sorsa a Koháryak Nógrád, illetve Heves és Külső-Szolnok vármegyei urbáriumai alapján
Éva Szirácsik „DEFINITELY WAS A SOLDIER” THE FATE OF THE BORDER FORTRESS SOLDIERS AND THEIR DESCENDANTS OF THE KOHÁRYS NÓGRÁD AS WELL AS HEVES AND OUTER-SZOLNOK COUNTIES BASED ON URBARIUMS (MEDIEVAL CHARTER) The vast Koháry family estates that were in Nógrád as well as Heves and Outer-Szolnok counties, of the extent to which the maximum was reached after the Rákóczi war of independence. At that time, feudal regulations were prepared by the local estates to farmers giving valuable information. After the Turkish invasion of the Nógrád castle-county, more border castles were deserted, these estates belonged to Balassagyarmat, Szecseny, Fülek and Hollókő territories.. I. Leopold Balassagyarmat, Fülek, and Szécsény would only allow the reestablishment of the Koháry, who for decades „végházi”( a kind of fortress with cannons) (praesidiarius) enjoyed the rights and obligations under which the residents have lived.. All this may have caused the former soldiers and their descendants to have gladly settled in the old fortresses surrounded by the expanding towns. Analyzing the data from the feudal documents after the Rákóczi war of independence found that a list of 906 names contained only a small fraction that were soldiers at the time of the census or possibly a descendant of one of the border fortress troops. In case of the newcomers on the land of István Koháry the census of landowners only contained the profession of their fathers if they had been soldiers. In the source only those people of military experience were mentioned who fought against the Turkish because they surely hadn’t listed those who, opposed to their landlords loyal to the Emperor, fought for the state of Ferenc Rákóczi IL. However, the data regarding their finances is accessible from this economic census that was not meant to serve purposes of political prosecution. The auditors are concerned with the data for purely economic purposes and not to politically cleanse the collective writings. The immigrant farmers for which the arrival date was determined in the feudal census is coupled with such a memorable historical event that more frequently defined their lives. From the date of migration of the named events, we observe that the early inhabitants of the period there experienced significant military and historical events. 83
