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 evidence that comites terrestres heard law-suits on the octaves of Saint George and the Epiphany.133 In disputes that nobiles castri had within their group, the comes terrestris ordered that some cases were to be resolved outside of the court procedure. Comes terrestris Valentin, son of Blaise, issued a charter in 1414 in which he stated that the sons and grandsons of Mark of Diankovec, and the daughters of Joanne of Diankovec and Peter, son of Giles and their offspring, had settled their conflict over the patrimony of Peter. The names of the probi viri involved in the case were not written down.134 According to the charter of comes terrestris Benedict, son of Paul de Pausinch from 1435, Phillip, son of Matthew of Diankovec and his son Dionysius, priest Stephen, Gregory, son of John and his son Matthew, just like Adrian, son of John of Diankovec and Galus, son of Blaise, selected amicable judges who were to be included in the debates over the estate. These judges were listed by name, among whom three were appointed by Galus and Adrian, and Phillip in the name of others appointed two more. It is characteristic that one of those probi viri was a former judge of the county of Križevci (Gregory), and the others were presumably picked from the respectable members of the community.135 Besides the comites terrestres, the other known officials of the castle district include the centurio and pristaldus, etc.136 In the charters from the age of the Arpads, they appear regularly, though in the fourteenth-century sources only comes terrestris appears. However, these positions probably existed then too, only we do not have a charter extant in which they were to be mentioned. It is certain that in the first years of the fifteenth century the honour of centurion was still filled, because in the charter of comes terrestris Valentin, son of Blaise, the role of his emissary was played by a centurion George, son of George.137 133 Saint George: 1 May 1413 (Documenta 39). For the octave of Epiphany, consult a charter of 6 March 1417 (Documenta 45), 24 January 1425 (Documenta 55). See also: Ferenc Eckhart, Magyar alkotmány- és jogtörténet [Hungarian Constitutional and Legal History], ed. Barna Mezey, Budapest 2000, p. 327. 134 17 January 1414 (Documenta 41). 135 5 September 1435 (Documenta 59). 136 Zsoldos, A szent király szabadjai, pp. 57-71. The office of centurion was mentioned by Lujo Margetić, too. Centurions came from the ranks of castle warriors and there were more than one, because every castle district was divided into smaller units whose leader was a centurion (Povezanost strukture hrvatskog stanovništva, pp. 97- 98). Franjo Smiljanić has noted that this institution is identical in various areas, from Mošćenice in Istria, Radošić and Oštrog in Dalmatia, Poljica in Croatia and Draganić in Slavonia (Studije o srednjovjekovnim, pp. 50, 67-69). 137 15 February 1409 (Documenta 32). 133
