Századok – 2004

Tanulmányok - Kenyeres István: A királyi és királynéi „magánbirtokok” a 16. században V/1103

1148 KENYERES ISTVÁN key role in providing fodder for the imperial stables of Vienna and provisioning the army, while the imperial stud and vines were likewise crucial in supplying the court of Vienna. The thirtieth of Magyaróvár, administered by the local captain, was one of the main sources of income of the Hofzahlamt in Vienna. The estate of Komárom provided before all viza (the biggest fresh-water fish, today extinct), an important fasting food, for the court of Vienna, but it was also thence that the emperor sent fish to the Polish and Bavarian princely courts. Komárom, an important border castle, was at the same time a crucial element of Habsburg-Ottoman diplomatic relations, whose castellan (Burggraf) organised the journeys of the envoys to the Sublime Port. The estate of Zólyom, although relatively poor, was important in securing the ruler's control over the mining towns of the Garam valley. Thanks to their special economic role and their subjection to the Chamber of Lower Austria these estates were distinguished from those which were regarded as fiscal estates and consequently subordinated to institutions of the Hungarian financial administration, namely the Hungarian Chamber and that of Szepes. It was upon these „private" royal estates that the real crown estates (Visegrád, Óbuda, Zólyom, Diósgyőr, Munkács) and the family possessions of the Habsburgs (Magyaróvár) were founded in the 18th

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