B. Halász Eva - Suzana Miljan (szerk.): Diplomatarium comitum terrestrium Crisiensium (1274-1439) (Subsidia ad historiam medii aevi Hungariae inquirendam 6. Budapest - Zagreb 2014)

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Comes terrestris Crisiensis. An introductory study

Laszowski, in the periodical Századok. In his criticism, Wertner placed a special focus on the comes terrestris of Zagreb (and other comites across the river Drava). He argues that the term terrestris merely points out that the individual in question simply originated from the county. As a translation he suggested the term "second count."13

On the basis of his source collection Emilij Laszowski himself has written a history of the noble community of Turopolje. There, he has dedicated a chapter on the institution of comes terrestris where he states that the former was the head of noble community (calling it "a tribal community") as a "chieftain" or an elder. In the sources the Latin term used for this institution was comes terrestris in the thirteenth century, and later zuppan, suppanus, finally ending in the nineteenth century with the Croatian vernacular term župan plemenite općine Turopolja. He emphasized that according to the conclusions of the Diet of 1278, one of the freedoms of the noblemen of Turopolje was the election of a comes terrestris, who was elected annually, and that his honor was called terrestratus. Comes terrestris of Turopolje was a subordinate of the "comes of the Zagreb castle," just as the nobles of Turopolje themselves were connected in the past with that castle. Simply put, he conducted all the legal affairs connected with Turopolje, from judicial courts to publication of charters.14

Approximately at the same time, the topic of the castle warriors of Križevci and their history was researched by Juraj Ćuk in his work entitled "Plemeniti Križevčani do postanka županije križevačke" [The Nobles of Križevci until the Formation of the County of Križevci]. Although the majority of the work is dedicated to a chronological survey of the history of the noble kindreds of the area and their genealogical connections, while debating on the nature of joint property of the "kindred" of Križevci he touches upon the function of the comes terrestris, for whom he uses the Croatian term "zemski župan". Thus, he states that the comes terrestris was in charge of handling the common (and at the same time

13 Mór Wertner, Monumenta historica nobilis communitatis Turopolje olim Campus Zagrabiensis dictae. Collegit et sumptibus eiusdem communitatis ed. Emilius Laszowski. Vol. I., 1225-1466. Zagrabiae, 1904. (Recenzió), Századok, vol. 39, Budapest 1905, pp. 554-559, especially p. 556.

14 Emilij Laszowski, Povijest plcm. općine Turopolja nekoć Zagrebačko polje zvane [A History of the Noble Community of Turopolje, formerly called The Field of Zagreb], vol. 2, Zagreb 1911, pp. 20-28. Recently, for the comites terrestres of Turopolje and their cooperation with the counts or captains of Medvedgrad or Lukavec, who were of German origin from the period of the Counts of Cili to George of Brandenburg and their archontology, see: Suzana Miljan, Nijemci u Turopolju u kasnom srednjem vijeku [Germans in Turopolje in the Late Middle Ages], Godišnjak Njemačke zajednice. DG Jahrbuch, vol. 18, Osijek 2011, pp. 29-50.

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