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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Diplomatarium comitum terrestrium Crisiensium (1274-1439)

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The most famous comes terrestris in Slavonia was certainly the one from Turopolje (de Campo Zagrabiensi)?* However, during the fourteenth century we also have references to the castellan of Kalnik35 and the comites terrestres of Moravče,36 Rovišće,37 Komarnica,38 Hraščina39 and Okie.40 However, if we look at a map of fourteenth- and fifteenth-century Hungary there were no counties with such names, but only castle districts forming an elaborate castle system. During the course of the preceding few centuries this castle-system was integrated into the newly-formed counties of Zagreb, Križevci and Varaždin.41 In the area north of the river Drava, such a castle-system disappeared during the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, because the appertaining estates of the castles were donated to individuals. Consequently, the castle warriors that resided on them met different fates, some rising to the rank of noblemen and others falling to the rank of serfs.42 The situation was different in the areas south of the river Drava. There, the castle-system survived and even in the fourteenth century castle warriors connected with castles could still

34 1333 (MHNC, doc. 50; Anjou-oklt. 17, reg. 550): Mykec comes terrestri (!) ... Datum in Ch[ic]ha.

35 28 April 1355 (CD 12, doc. 218): Georgius filius Benk filii Budizlay comes terrestris de eodem Kemluk.

36 17 August 1335 (CD 10, doc. 166; Anjou-oklt. 19, doc. 517): Thomas filius Gregarii comes terrestris de eadem Marowcha.

37 2 August 1341 (CD 10, doc. 447, Anjou-oklt. 25, doc. 540): Lubenum terrestrem comitem de Royche.

38 5 December 1351 (CD 12, doc. 39): Iwan filium Pauli comitem terrestrem de eadem [Kamarcha].

39 14 December 1336 (CD 10, doc. 218, Anjou-oklt. 20, doc. 484): Gurke filii Branich comitis terrestris de eadem Hraschina.

40 19 March 1394 (CD 17, doc. 405, str. 582-583): quidem nobiles iobagiones predicti castri nostri Oklich, videlicet Iivan, filius Dixe, pro tunc comes terrestris existens et alius Iwan, filius Stasecha, de generációm Chethkouich uocata.

41 The castle districts of the age of the Árpáds were located in the territories of the later fourteenth-century counties: Varaždin and Hrašćina in the later county of Varaždin; Zagreb, Moravče, Podgorje and Okie in the county of Zagreb; and Kalnik, Križevci, Rovišće, Garić, Grđevci, Garešnica and Cesmice in the county of Križevci. On the history of Slavonian castle districts, see: Pesty, A magyarországi várispánságok története, passim; Gyula Kristó, A vármegyék kialakulása Magyarországon [The Formation of Counties in Hungary], Budapest 1988, pp. 305-330; N. Klaić, Hrvati u razvijenom srednjem vijeku, pp. 257-265; V. Klaić, Da li je nekadanja Slavonija, no. 41, pp. 656-657.

42 Zsoldos, A szent király szabadjai, pp. 158-185.

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