Takács Imre: Az Árpád-házi királyok pecsétjei (Corpus sigillorum hungariae mediaevalis 1. Budapest, 2012)

Catalogue

C 'opy:

Budapest History Museum, inv. no. 66.1893.

Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, VI 32-33a.

Budapest, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Art History, inv. no. 433, 121.

Varjú 1896, p. 146; Marsina II, p. 503, Tab. XXI/4a-b, XXII/5a-b; Kovács 1984, pp. 408-409, 416, Hg. 1; Kovács 1998, pp. 342, 345, tig. 92; Megpecsételt történelem, p. 29; Bodor 2001, pp. 7-8, fig. 22.

34.

Queen Mary

Double seal

after 1242 (?) - 1270

diatn: 82 mm

The first known seal of a Hungarian queen, its details (position of the hands, the pointed spike at the base of the double cross, drawn without shield) may be traced to Béla IV’s second seal, made after 1241. The style of the figure, however, is closer to that of Béla IV’s gold seal, which remained in continuous use after the Mongol Invasion. Its manufacture may be linked to a 1243 charter in which Béla IV raised to the nobility Budgey Sccmeyg, Queen Mary’s goldsmith (aurifabri carissime consortis M. regine Hungarie, MOL DL 58005).

Legend between beaded lines on front:

MARIA [DEI GRjACIA REGINA HVNGARIE fragment of legend on reverse:

S(IGILLVM) MA[RIE FI LIE LASCARIS IM PE RATO RIS GRECORUM]

Original:

Zagreb, Hrvatski Drzavni Arhiv, Neo-regestrata acta 1502.2. (previously: Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, DL 33714)

Copies:

Budapest, Hungarian National Archives, V2 432 Budapest History Museum, inv. no. 66.1895.

Dory 1917, pp. 19-20; Bodor 2001, pp. 9-10, fig. 31; Takács 2011, pp. 85-86, fig. 5c.

35.

Stephen V, junior king and Duke of Styria

Ducal double seal 1258-1270

diam: 83 mm

The two sides of this double seal combine the equestrian seal composition traditionally used by dignitaries and princes of lower than royal status with the image type of royal seals, based on the throne. Béla IV’s eldest son began to use the seal as Duke of Styria and junior king of Hungary in 1258. Prior to this, as may be seen on a charter of 1257, the shield in the rider’s hand bears another coat of arms. The extremely fragmentary impression (MOL DL 42) shows the double cross of the Árpáds instead of the lion of Styria (Szentpctery 1921/22, p. 80; Vcszprémy 2000, p. 14). Stephen continued to use the seal after his brief rule of Styria came to an end in 1260 and

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