C. Tóth Norbert: Az esztergomi székeskáptalan a 15. században, I. rész. A kanonoki testület és az egyetemjárás - Subsidia ad historiam medii aevi Hungariae inquirendam 7. (Budapest, 2015)
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172 The Cathedral Chapter of Esztergom in the Fifteenth Century research and their solutions suggested as a matter of fact comparison with the results of an older generation of scholars, before all with the remarks of Elemér Mályusz about the ecclesiastical middle class. (Mályusz E.: Egyházi társadalom 57-115.). The results of the research into the erudition of the cathedral canons and the supposed expansion of foreign clerics in the chapter — that is, the extent to which the relevant hypothesis of Elemér Mályusz can be validated in the case of Esztergom — are set forth in the third part. To begin with, foreign benefice-holders were already a small minority at Esztergom prior to 1390 (alt- ogerher 4 persons). Their proportion cannot have been much higher even if we suppose that there were some foreigners among the unknown canons as well. Nor did their presence in the chapter become more dominant in the period after 1390: in each year the number of those who came from abroad remained two or three. In the 1450s, the decade best enlightened by the sources, and particularly in the year 1459, there was not a single canon in the chapter who had not been born in the Kingdom of Hungary. The hypothesis of Mályusz thus proved untenable: with regard to the total personnel of the chapter of Esztergom the number and proportion of forigners remained insignificant. Yet in one particular office they were undoubtedly overrepresented: in the tribunal of the holy see of Esztergom, where they acted as vicars. The reason for this was the lack until the first decade of the 15th century of any „Hungarian" canon having the necessary doctoral degree in canon law. (Thomas Pöstyéni is only documented in the chapter from 1409 on.) Upon the death of Matthew Vicedomini of Piacenza, doctor in both laws, in the spring of 1428, the leadership of the vicar's see was assumed by a Hungarian cleric, Nicholas Temesvári, but he was again followed, in the latter part of the period examined, by persons of Italian origin. The examination of university students and graduates has yielded similar results: in the chapter of Esztergom there was no need to push out foreigners and thus to „reconquer" the prebends, for neither foreign pretenders, nor highly educated university graduates presented themselves in any numbers before the third decade of the 15th century. Moreover, the several university graduates, who emerged around the turn of the century, apparently had no difficulty in finding a place in the chapter. Whether the situation was similar in the other chapters (at Pécs it seems to have been the case, cf. the data on the university graduates in T. Fedeles, Pécsi székeskáptalan pp. 298-300.), must be revealed by further research. The last part contains the lists of canons included in the five letters of attorney, the biographical data of those 54 canons who held a prebend in the decade between 1451 and 1460, as well as eleven genealogical trees illustrating the origins of various canons. The volume is closed by the bibliography of primary and secondary literature, a list of abbreviations and an index of personal names. The Roman numeral which figures in the title of the book calls for some explanation. For the volume before the reader, dealing with the canons' careers and their university studies, is but the first fruit of my research into the
