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 complish the task, the ban needed to send Demetrius, son of John, who was most probably identical with Demetrius, the former comes terrestris, even though he was not identified then as comes.75 The sons of the aforementioned Demetrius, Nicholas and Stephen, also held the office of the comes terrestris of Križevci. Nicholas was the incumbent between 1355 and 1356, and Stephen from 1361 to 1362. We know that castle warriors actively participated in the public life of a county, thus it is not impossible that Stephen which was mentioned in 1352 as an emissary of the comes of Križevci, Paul, son of Michael, in the course of the inquest of the property rights on a particular estate, is the same as Stephen, son of Demetrius, a future comes terrestris.76 In the same manner a certain Stephen, son of Demetrius, was mentioned in 1366 as homo specialis of the comes of Križevci. Since we do not know more details on this case, it cannot be known for certain whether the person in question is Stephen who held the office of comes terretris of Križevci from 1361 to 1362, or just some other Stephen whose father bore the same name, Demetrius.77 Stephen, son of Ban Paul, who was also previously comes of Križevci before the current Comes Paul in 1343, appointed as his procurator a certain Nicholas, son of Demetrius, his retainer. It is possible that this Nicholas, son of Demetrius, is identical to Nicholas, son of Demetrius, which was comes terrestris in 1355, since homines fidedigni were chosen from the ranks of the castle warriors in the first half of the fourteenth century.78 Mika, son of Matthew, was comes terrestris in 1339. Mika is mentioned too in the charter issued by Paul, the comes of Križevci in 1334, regarding the aforementioned inquest into the property rights of the Gušćerovac estate. In this case Mika is mentioned alongside Demetrius, son of John, bearing the same title, comes.79 As demonstrated already, together with Guy and Demetrius he was the emissary of the ban of Slavonia.80 In 1340, in front of the comes of Križevci, Stephen, son of Paul, and the comes terrestris Demetrius, son of John, he had a law suit with Luke, son of Martin, whose social status is not mentioned in the records of the suit, but who was most probably a castle warrior. According to the Mika's accusation, Luke wounded the wife of certain tenant-peasant by the name of Lada 75 22 September 1345 (CD 11, doc. 179). 76 24 March 1352 (NAZ, ZKČ, Diplomata, no. 27, MNL OL, DF 282 330); Zsoldos, A szent király szabadjai, p. 71. 77 9 June 1366 (CD 13, doc. 387). 78 19 July 1343 (CD 11, doc. 56). 79 13 September 1343 (CD 11, doc. 66; Anjou-oklt. 27, doc. 606). 80 28 June 1334 (CD 11, doc. 115). 123
