Diaconescu, Marius (szerk.): Mediaevalia Transilvanica 1997 (1. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
Elite
112 loan Drágán We mention hier only the representatives of some remarkable families. From Peşteana (Haţeg) raised egregius Andrei de Pesthyen, vasal of Iancu de Hunedoara and Mihai (1447-1479), member of the royal Court, county governor and ambassador in Valachia and Moldavia. The members of Cdndea and Căndreş related families (Kende, Kenderes), also from Haţeg district, became famous as military commanders and vasals of Corvin family. At the end of 15th century Mihai Kendefi participated as leader of nobility at Hungarian Parliament and member of the Court of Transylvania. loan Căndreş, who put the buses of the branch of Kenderesi family, was a member of royal Council under king Mathias and a famous military leader. His sons also activated in the structures of the royal Court. From the large family of Vlad de Ciula, besides the barons Ladislau Fychor (1479-1492), Master of the Horse and Warden f banus j of Jaice (Bosnia) and Severin (Romanian Banat) and Gheorghe More (1489-1507), also Master of Horse and Warden of Severin and Belgrad, others three members became famous in military jobs: Nicolae Kende, Warden of Sabacz in Serbia (1494-1508), Mihai More vice-Warden in Belgrad (7-1521) and loan Wancha (1479-1489), chiefcommander of Unguraş castle in Transylvania. Dej de Timişel (Dees de Themesel) family, from the Mehadia district belonged to the Banat elite and distinguished themselves as Iancu de Hunedoara's vasals. Petru Olahus (=the Romanian) was member of the royal Court as cubicularius and distinguished himself on the occasion of the suppresion of the secessionist rebellion in Transylvania in 1467 and received the properties of a nobleman from lclod (today in Cluj county), who had been executed and took the name Desy de Iclod. His son Emeric Desy became a baron at the beginning of 16th century. The nobles of Mâtnic (Muthnok) from Caransebeş district, in the same Banat area, seemingly raised. Ştefan and Mihai de Mâtnic were in the service of young king Mathias, who made them Wardens of Severin (1458-1467). lacob de Mâtnic was also member of the royal Court and a well known ambassador (around 1472), other Mihai was a royal notary and Petru More de Mâtnic was vasal al the Court of duke loan Corvin, the son of King Mathias. From the leading families in the Banat area we may also mention egregii Nicolae de Bizere fByzerej, knight of the royal Court (1433) and then intimate vasal of Iancu de Hunedoara, Mihai and Vasile de Cérna fCharnaJ, Wardens of Severin (1447- 1454), Petru Vistier de Măcicaşu (Tharnok de Machkas), chief commander of Segnia fortress in Dalmatia (1487-1494) and Warden of Severin (1494-1501), lacob Gârlişteanu (de Gerlesthe), Warden of Severin (1494-1508) and Andrei Danfi de Duboz (Danfy de Dubozj Warden of Croatia (1475-1476) and of Severin (1491).
