Kujbusné Mecsei Éva - Mykhailo Mishuk (szerk.): Bereg vármegye pecsétjei - A Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg Megyei Levéltár Kiadványai II. Közlemények 47. (Nyíregyháza, 2017)

It is likely that Bereg received its new seal in 1726, since the silver chest in which the seal was stored, carries the following inscription: ’’Illustrissimus Dominus Comes Sigismun- dus Csáky de Keresztszegh, I. Cottus Bereghiensis supremus comes et Stephanus Kajdy, ejusdem I. Cottus О. V. Comes fieri curavit, Anno 1726. Restauratum Anno 1790.”’

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Picture І11 - Seal of Bereg county from the early 18th centuries

When the Ottoman occupants had finally been driven out of the country, the counties replaced their seals, they applied for new ones or had the original ones reinforced. Several counties were granted the right to use seals but coats-of-arms with pictures. The Archdioeces of Eger wrote about a new seal to Bereg county in 1739.

The new county seal, similarly to those of the other counties, carried a circular Latin inscription: COMITATVS BEREGH. The field of the seal was a shield divided into four parts. The first quarter contained a bunch of grapes and a leaf, the second one a twig of an oak with three acorns and two leaves facing left, the third one a bear in an erect position, facing left, and the fourth one two fish swimming side by side to the right.26 * 28

Picture 829 - Seal of Bereg county, 1744

26 ’’Made to the order of the honorable Count Zsigmond Csáky, comes of the noble county of Bereg and Zsigmond

Kalydy, vice-prefect in office of the aforesaid county, in 1726 and renewed in 1790.”

27 Sándor Pál-Antal: Az erdélyi és partiumi vármegyék címeres pecsétjei. In Szabolcs-Szatmár-Beregi Levéltári Évkönyv, 11. Ed. Nagy Ferenc. Nyíregyháza, 1995. (henceforth Pál-Antal, 1995.) 297.

28 Ibid. 288.

29 MNL ÓLA 27-Bereg-1744-No. 400.

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