F. Mentényi Klára szerk.: Műemlékvédelmi Szemle 1993/1. szám Az Országos Műemléki Felügyelőség tájékoztatója (Budapest, 1993)

TANULMÁNY - Balázsik Tamás: Kegyúri temetkezés Túristvándiban

ornamented dress was uncovered in front of the triumphal arch, in the central axis of the church. Under his coffin the remnant of a sabre broken at the grasp was found. On the right hand of the dead there was a golden seal-ring from the 17th century with the coat-of-arms of the Szente-Mágócs family, and with the letters A K, D K. According to data of the history of the family the ring must have been in the possession of a member of the Kölesei Kende family. The family Szente-Mágócs had possessions in different parts of Hungary and were patrons of several churches: a bénédictine church in Mágócs (Baranya county), a cistercian in Esztergom—Máriamező, and an unknown order in Peturmonostora (medieval Bodrog county). The line of Szatmár had the monastery in Cégény founded around the mid 12th century as a patron church. Túristvándi belonged to the possessions of the patrons. The members of the family had divided their possession in 1345. According to the document at that time a manor house with a chapel stood in Túristvándi. Perhaps this chapel might have been the one previous to the today church built around 1500, but it is also possible, that there was another church in the village. In connection with the 14th century division of the family — and this was a general feature of Hungarian social development — , the line of the family having possessions in the village began to use the forename Istvándi. They are the origin of the gentry family Kölesei Kende. They became among the families the owners of Túristvándi, and they buried their deads in the church of the village. The owner of the ring — on the basis of the letters on it — must have been András Kende (+1669/71), the captain of the yeomanry of György Rákóczi 1st, Prince of Transylvania, and his son, Zsigmond. But as rings were not necessarily buried with their owners, but their sons or even other relatives could have them as well, it might have been possible, that this ring got to the grave with Ferenc (+1698/1701) one of the sons of András Kende. According to the common law recorded in the tripartite corpus juris of Werbőczy (1514), the youngest son, Ferenc inherited the manor house of his father in Túristvándi, and he lived there till his death. The sons of András did not have descendants and the lands in Túristvándi got to the possession of heiresses of the female line. So the dead may be identified with one of the two persons mentioned. The broken sabre found under the œffîn is referring to a special habit of burial. The Catholic and Protestant manner of burial had a type of a pompous demonstration resembling to a procession, with theatrical characteristics. The sword or sabre had an important role in it, as a representation of Hungarian nobility defending the country with his sword and for this reason having privileges. The cultural-historical importance of the find of Túristvándi is that until now there were only written sources of the habit of breaking the weapon as the expression of the break, and loss of value as a result of death.