Belényesy Károly: Pálos kolostorok az Abaúji-Hegyalján (Borsod-Abaúj-Zemplén megye régészeti emlékei 3. Miskolc, 2004)

PAULINE FRIARIES IN THE ABAÚJ HEGYALJA REGION

can be supposed that the first hermitage was organized by the Aba family or one of their retainers.

6 In 1311, a further permission was given to the monastery allowing to observe the dedication festival of the church. Gergely Gyöngyössy, in his Vitae fratrum, under the year 1319 mentions the monastery, which "stands above Horwath" (today Erdőhorváti). Moreover, he adds that a relic of St Ladislaus was kept there, which was verified by Martin, Bishop of Eger.

67 In 1348, Stephen Upor donated a vineyard to the monastery on the hill of the village Tolcsva, called Chrebeter, and at the same place two plots of arable land, and a water mill on the Tolcsva stream. In 1348, the Queen exempted the monastery from paying tithe after their vineyards around the castle (most probably Regéc). In 1411, King Sigismund exempted from taxation all goods, wagons and food products of the monks and pilgrims. In 1465, Emerich Szapolyai, donated a residenceplace to the Paulines in the village called Horváth. This donation was confirmed in 1509. In 1466, Peter Liszkay Szilva donated a mill on the water of Tolcsva stream, near the castle of Regéc. In 1469, Simon Deáki gave the quarter of a mill in the village of Horváti, worth nine golden Forints. In 1526, John, Pauline prior, sold an old mill to the monastery, which stood on the water of Korlátfalva village, around the border of Vizsoly village,. Nevertheless, the mill was severely destroyed, and Bálint Ernyey paid twenty Forints for it. In 1547, Gáspár Serédy set the buildings on fire, for which he was accused by the Pauline order before the Royal Court. In 1560, John Alaghy was ordered to appear before court, because he usurped the mills of the Paulines along the Hernád river. The suit most likely ended without results, but the nobleman promised to reconstruct the monastery in 1614. After this, in 1636, he paid four hundred Forints for the lands that were already in his hands. In 1651, Dec return Regni guaranteed the undisturbed existence of the rights of the monastery, but the institution did not work in that period. After the destruction of the monastic buildings one part of the estates were given to the Pauline community at Sátoraljaújhely. The history of the Pauline residence in The foundation cannot be connected to the transformation of the Patak Forest at the end of the thierteenth century. The relic was brought there from the St Ladislaus chapel located in a nearby village called Középnémeti. Gyöngyösy's data of 1319 refers to the chapel, therefore, it can be only conditionally connected to the monastery of St Philip and St Jacob. See Hervay, 1988 60, Cap 20. Horváti village can be detected until the disappearance of the Újhely monastery.

68 In 1763, even the ruins of the monastery were visible.

69 On the maps of both Regéc from 1784 and contemporary Ordinance Surveys, the ruins are not marked (Map 14, 17 and 21). Earlier Research The donation charter of 1307 describes the site of the monastery as Kökényes.

70 In 1311, Paulines are mentioned near Regéc, and later the Vitae fratrum refers to Paulines living above the village of Horváti. Early modern sources contain even more uncertainty about the location of the monastery. Place names, such as Baráti, Barátláz, Baráty, Barát láz (literally Monks' field) can either refer to the territory owned by the Paulines, or to the monastery itself (Maps 19 and 21.) The historical monograph of Zemplén County, published in 1905, affirms that the territory called Barátok dűlő "may have some historical 71 importance... ". Péter Gerecze mentions the ruins of an "uncovered" cloister, but does not indicate its accurate position.

72 Later, István Genthon adopted Gerecze's data.

73 György Györffy argued that the monastic site is situated in the Barát field near Ohuta, or can be connected with the field called "Barát láz" north of Regéc

74 (Map 21). The authors of Documenta Artis Paulinorum located the ruins four km east of Regéc, in the close vicinity of Erdőhorváti, but did not provide any closer information or notes.

75 Tamás Guzsik and Rudolf Fehérvári mentioned that the traces of the monastery can still be seen on the surface, but they did not identify the exact site either.

76 Later, Mária Wolf, dealing with the topographical development of Abaúj County in the Arpadian Period, raised the debate about the location of the Pauline monastery at Regéc. She claimed the "Barát láz" field as the possible place of the monastery, but added that no apparent traces were observed during the field survey project of the area.

77 In 1992, József Laszlovszky identified the traces of a small, rectangular building, 68 DAP III, 29, 1023; 151. Fol. 150. 69 DAP III, 131. 70 "in Kukenis" 71 Borovszky, 1905 50. 72 ...Pauline monastery in the surrounding area... even its place is identifiable." Gerecze, 1938 87. 73 Genthon, 1961 2, 247. 74 Györffy, 1963 115. 75 DAP III., 309. 76 Guzsik-Fehérvári, 1980 13. 77 Wolf, 1989 143.