Neumann Tibor: A Korlátköviek. Egy előkelő család története és politikai szereplése a 15-16. században - A Győri Egyházmegye Levéltár kiadványai. Források, feldolgozások 5. (Győr, 2007)
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English abstract 233 Szendrő to negotiate with the Serbian despot about the release of governor John Hunyadi, who had fallen into captivity after the battle of Kosovo Polje. Bucsányi was a deputy banus until 1452, captain of Visegrád between 1450 and 1455, then (deputy) comes of Nitra from 1454 until his death. He died in 1456, a little after he had set off from Nitra towards Beograd with his troops maintained by himself. The fourth chapter is the biography of his youngest son, Oswald. After the death of the deputy banus there were hard times for the family. Their estates were put in pledge one after the other and Stephen, the eldest son - who was a retainer of Michael Ország palatine and married into the baronial Kompolt family of Nána - died in 1471 at a very young age. However, the real disaster came in September 1473 when King Mathias (1458-1490) ordered Ladislas Podmanicki to capture the castle of Korlátkő “inhabited by rogues”. Nothing is known about the antecedents but it seems that it is not in connection with the Polish raid in 1471. Later sources referred to the disloyalty of Michael, second son of Oswald deputy banus. Nevertheless, the siege was successful - it is known, for example, that Pozsony sent eight harquebuses and a hundredweight gunpowder - and the family lost its eponymous castle for a quarter of a century. It was first owned by Georg von Stein, the governor of Lower Silesia, then by Johann Plankner von Königsberg, a royal knight and his family. Oswald Jr. had only three or four villages left and was bound to leave the castle and move to his manor in Szák (Komárom county). Although the author finds it possible that Oswald Jr. served the Rozgonyi family in the 1470s and 1480s, his carrier was owing to Wladislaw II. (1490-1526). He was a royal steward (dispensator regius) between 1492 and 1498 and as such he claimed Korlátkő back by 1498 the latest and even got the castle of Hegyesd (Zala county) as a gift from the king in 1492. In 1498 he was appointed the castellan of Tata and comes of Komárom by the king, but he was notwithstanding considered a courtier {aulicus). Although he held these offices until his death the king gave him additional titles: in 1500 he was given the right of decempersonatus, on the basis of which he could retain the war-tax collected on his estates in order to maintain an own bandérium. His political power is demonstrated well by the fact that sometimes he was referred to as an advisor to the king. Between 1506 and 1510 he travelled to Poland and Moldova several times as an envoy; the text of the Polish-Moldovan peace treaty in 1510 was partly the result of his mediation. Although Oswald obtained the Hegyesd estate by 1504 he immediately forwarded it to Ambrus Sárkány, later royal judge {iudex curiae)-, the reason of this step was that Oswald was given the Branö estate (Hung. Berencs, next to Korlát, Nitra county) as a gift in 1502, the right of pledge of which was held by George Mekcsei, provost of SpiS. To redeem the castle - that succeeded only in 1511 - he had to sacrifice the remote Hegyesd among others. Eventually Oswald died in 1511 bequeathing two neighbouring estates and other significant lands to his four sons. The fifth chapter is the biography of Peter Korlátkövi, a Steward of the Royal Household and Master of the Doorkeepers. Peter was born around 1480 from the first marriage of Oswald Jr. and held the offices - no doubt owing to the help of his
