Budapest Régiségei 37. (2003)

Engel Pál - Lővei Pál: Ellyevölgyi János nádori ítélőmester (1526?) sírköve 185-188

ELLYEVÖLGYI JÁNOS NÁDORI ÍTÉLŐMESTER (1526?) SÍRKÖVE THE GRAVESTONE OF JÁNOS OF ELLYEVÖLGY, (1526?) One of the most significant gravestone finds in the territory of the mediaeval Hungary is the collection consisting of over seventy items that were excavated in the course of archaeological research in the mediaeval Dominican friary of Buda. Names, dates of death or coats of arms can be seen on several of them , but anybody familiar from written documents is hard to be found among them. One of the exceptions is János of Ellyevölgy, XXXX, the well-known XXX of the Jagellonian period. The bottom part of the gravestone carved of limestone with a XXXsurface camr to light at the excavation by Katalin H. Gyürky in the territory of the former Dominican friary. There is a script carved in parallel lines, in not very carefully and precisely carved Renaissance capital letters the last nine lines reads as foUows: .../REGY MAGISTER/ IOHANN(e)S DE ELLY/EWELGH P(ro)THONO/ TAR(i)V(s) PALATINAL/IS VNACVM FRANCI/ SCO HLIO ET PVELL/A DOROTHE.../ SVIS QU(I) OBII(T)/IN ANNO l...(D)NI The last figures of the date may be missung despite the bad conditon of the surface, because it is possible that Ellyevölgyi who supposedly died in the battle of Mohács had had his gravestone made in his life. This way of thinking was not unusual of the age. János Ellyevölgyi's son Ferenc and daughter Dorottya mentioned in the text of the gravestone could have already been dead in the time of making the gravestone - no other written document mentions them. Ellyevölgyi came from a well-to-do XXXXX from the county of Somogy. His ancestors were already mentioned in the 13

th century They founded aprepostery for the canons of the Augustine order back in the Árpádian period. Ellyevölgy exists today as Öllevölgy on the southern outskirts of Bárdudvarnok. By the 15

th century the kin diverged into several families Ellyevölgyi, Fóris, Ipoltfi, Bárdi, Szentiváni) and XXXX. Similarly to other members of his family, János Ellyevölgyi XXX. In 1480 he was employed at the XXXX and from 1496 one after the other he fulfilled the post of the prothonotarius palatinalis first of the XXXof Slavonia (1496-1497), then XXX (1498-1503) and finally the XXX (1504-1526). He is last mentioned in May 1526 thus it is possible that he lost his life in the battle of Mohács. During his carreer he boought a house in Buda and lands in the counties of Somogy, Pest and Körös. 187