Megyetörténet. Egyház- és igazgatástörténeti tanulmányok a veszprémi püspökség 1009. évi adománylevele tiszteletére - A Veszprém Megyei Levéltár kiadványai 22. (Veszprém, 2010)
Tanulmányok a megyei igazgatás történetéről - C. Tóth Norbert: A világi igazgatás Magyarországon a Zsigmond-korban, különös tekintettel Veszprém megyére
A VILÁGI IGAZGATÁS MAGYARORSZÁGON A ZSIGMOND-KORBAN these counties had been royal private estates at their development and remained so thereafter as well. The number of nobility of small and medium-sized estates also remained small and „occupied” also less territory of the county due to the overweight of royal domains. Nobility was an essential component for the noble county, thus, following the hypothesis, in counties with relatively small number of noblemen two szolgabírós and, consequently, two districts existed. Apart from counties with two szolgabírós, another administrative peculiarity existed. It has been known for long that some counties had two tribunals, hence nobility in Krassó, Veszprém, Zala, Fejér, Sopron and Szepes were subordinate to two courts of justice, although not along the same lines. By the end of the Angevin-period, such division ceased to exist in Krassó, whereas in Szepes a separate tribunal developed for the privileged people, ie. for nobles of the ten lances (nobiles sub decern lancets constituti), who had their own sub-prefects {alispánt = vicecomes) and szolgabírós. It was the office of the count which meant the sole connection between the two tribunals in the latter case. In case of county Veszprém, however, two formerly separate territories are supposed to have preserved some detachment after their union. No similar theories exist concerning Fejér, Sopron and Zala counties. If similarities are desired, locality of the four counties should be taken into consideration. It was the Bakony mountains that divided Veszprém county along a North-South axis. In case of county Fejér, the Danube detached the tribunal of Solt from the mother-county. Borders in case of county Sopron and Zala were rivers again: the tribunal of Rábaköz lay between the rivers Répce, Rábca and Rába, whereas in case of county Zala tribunals were divided by the Zala river. Alispánt controlled the territory of the tribunal, and szolgabírós assisted them. Two szolgabírós belonged to the tribunal of Solt and that of Rábaköz, their mother counties had four and two accordingly, hence county Fejér had altogether six and Sopron four szolgabírós. The geographically separate tribunals, together with their own name, appeared almost at the same time: the first charter of the tribunal of Rábaköz dates back to 1338, whereas that of Solt to 1348. In case of county Veszprém, charters were issued at two settlements from the beginning of the Angevin-period demonstrably: at Veszprém from 1324, and at (Apáca)Vásárhely from 1343 onwards. Nevertheless, in county charters no place of issue is indicated as long as 1458, contrary to the custom in Fejér, Sopron and Zala counties. It was the bishops of Veszprém who governed the county from the beginning of the reign of king Sigismund, who conferred the hereditary position of the count to the bishop in 1392. Bishops generally appointed two alispáns, which did not mean, however, that one alispán controlled one specific tribunal of Veszprém or Vásárhely, apart from the years between 1412 and 1428. Sources also indicate that only the tribunal of Vásárhely functioned from the second half of the Angevin-period, since charters 343
