Folia Historica 34. (Budapest, 2019)

II. KÖZLEMÉNYEK - Ritoók Ágnes: Krystof Kropac z Nevédomí a na Bzenci sírköve a Magyar Nemzeti Múzeumban

került az 1651-ben elhunyt Perényi Ferenc és felesége sírfelirata. Ugyancsak a ferences templom korai síremlékei közé sorolható Barbora Vojslavicka z Vojslavic sírkövének töredéke.37 Krystof Kropac - feltehetően már megrongálódott - sírlapja pedig az értékesített/ elajándékozott kövek között lehetett.

TOMBSTONE OF KRYSTOF KROPAC Z NEVÉDOMÍ A NA BZENCI IN THE HUNGARIAN NATIONAL MUSEUM

Summary

In 1910 the Hungarian National Museum bought a fragmentary tombstone („memorial") from Skalice. The stone was found in a canal for barley juice of the old brewery, next to the town wall, in secondary position. Identification of the deceased person and reading (and understanding) the Slavic inscription of gothic minuscule have remained unsolved up the present day (with the exception of the date: 1535). (Figs. 1,2)

The coat of arms (three cross lilies) refers to a Moravian family of Silezian origin, the Kropács z Nevédomí. The personal data of the inscription was destroyed, a fragment of the estate name (znewied) and the usual closing formula remained: Letha-ieT535-wsobotu /[...] /znewiedj...] / yni-atuto-pochowan-gestghoz-dussi-panboohraczmilostiw-beiti Mikulás Kropác was a supporter of king Mathias Corvinus (1458-1490). He was granted with the Branc castle (1470). He is mentioned in the first place among the founders and benefactors of the Franciscan friary of Skalica. But in 1523 he was no longer alive.

He had four sons: Ján, dean of the Wroclaw chapter; Jindrich died about 1510, his simple tombstone can be seen in the St Andrew church cemetery at Ivanovice. Václáv's widow is mentioned in 1522. Only one of the four sons, Krystof was alive in the early 1530s, and he is known to be in contact with Skalica. (Fig. 3) In 1510, in the town hall he testified to the letting of a town-owned pond. He was still alive in 1518, when he was a guarantee for a village sale transaction. His burial place was marked by the slab that originally was laid in the Skalica Franciscan Church, since he was the member of the founding family. The tombstone is stylistically closely linked to the activity of an Olomouc workshop in 1520s and 30s related to the bishopric court of Stanislav Thurzo. The customer of the tombstone might have been Krystof s son, Ján, a prosperous proprietor of Hranice and Zlin Castle.

In the second half of the 18th century or later the slab was carried for secondary use to the town's brewery, and from there it was bought by the Hungarian National Museum.

37 Hoferka, M. i. m. A tanulmány szerint jelenleg a Záhorské múzeum kiállításán.

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