Századok – 2022
2022 / 6. szám - KÖZLEMÉNY - Mihalik Béla Vilmos: Mattyasovszky László kancellári kinevezése (1695—1696)
MIHALIK BÉLA VILMOS Cseles levelének melléklete: Pro maiore Dei gloria, bono publico Ecclesiae, regis et regni apostolid in praesenti constitutione cleri hungariae, Pro vacante officio cancellarii maxime idonei sunt. Reverendissimus ac illustrissimus dominus Ladislaus Mattyasovski, nominatus episcopus Tomnensis, collegiatae ecclesiae Scepusiensis praepositus, sacrae caesareae regiaeque maiestatis consiliarius Reverendissimus ac illustrissimus dominus Stephanus Telekesi, nominatus episcopus Csanadinensis, cathedralis ecclesiae Jaurinensis custos et canonicus, sacrae caesareae regiaeque maiestatis consiliarius Uterque Romae in Collegio Germanico et Hungarico theologiam scholasticam cum laude absolvit, circa Annum 1668um. Uterque bonae nobilitatis, bonae vitae, virtutis ac doctrinae magnaeque etiam in negotiis publicis experientiae. Aetate accedunt ad annum 60um. Fidelitate erga regem suum constanter eminuerunt. Possent in considerationem venire etiam 3 sequentes. Reverendissimus ac illustrissimus dominus Georgius Fenesi episcopus Agriensis Reverendissimus ac illustrissimus dominus Augustinus Benkovicz episcopus Varadinensis Reverendissimus ac illustrissimus dominus Paulus Szecseni episcopus Wesprimiensis Verum primo obstat aetas nimium provecta et diocesis ab aula remota nimium. THE APPOINTMENT OF LÁSZLÓ MATTYASOVSZKY AS CHANCELLOR (1695-1696) By Béla Vilmos Mihalik SUMMARY The administrative reform of 1690 considerably transformed the organisation of the Hungarian Royal Chancellery and enhanced its role within the government. After the death of Balázs Jakiin, bishop of Nyitra and Hungarian royal chancellor (1695) the Viennese court set about searching for a new leader of the office. Although earlier some influential voices had already urged that the chancellorship should be entrusted to a layman, in the winter of 1695 only churchmen were proposed. In his letter found in the archives of the Goëss family (Klagenfurt), Márton Cseles, Hungarian Jesuit penitentiary at Rome, proposed five names for consideration, and his list may have exerted some 1247
