Tari Edit: Pest megye középkori templomai (Studia Comitatensia 27. Szentendre, 2000.)
deaneries. He supplied them with rich donations, so it became possible to maintain a bigger church body. In the edicts of the Council of Szabolcs kept in 1092, under the reign of king László, an archipresbiter, that is to say an archdean is mentioned. It is clear from the provisions that this title can be placed between the ones of bishop and priest. This authority, as a one connected not with a person, but with a church, must have been functioning starting from the end of the 11 th century. The king gave the task of supervising the growing number of churches to the archipresbiter. The 11 th century's origin of the archdeaneries inside the bishoprics is regarded by the majority of the historians. In county Pest such an early dean's church from the 11 th century was excavated in Visegrád. 414 By the time of king Kálmán (1095-1116) the name of archipresbiter changed to archidiaconus (archdean or archdeacon) and indicated a person standing at the same level as the ispán (administrative leader of the comitat). By the beginning of the 13 th century the archdeans became the members of the chapter, which also meant that usually they left their country seat and moved to the centre of the diocese. 415 The provisions of the Council of Szabolcs in 1092 regulated the organisation of parishes and also the building of churches. They commanded to restore the demolished or burnt churches. This latter regulation also leads us to the suggestion, that the edict by King István according to which "each 10 villages should build a church... " could change in the 60 years that passed: by this time villages could have had their own independent churches. Churches destroyed during the interior wars must had been restored by believers, and buildings collapsed because of their oldness had to be rebuilt by bishops. Their demolition could be caused not only by local wars and destructions of time, but also because of their flammable and weak material (timber, timber-frame, wicker, reed, mud etc.). The existence of timber techniques known also from records is evidenced by the excavation of a church at Tápiógyörgye-Ilike part, in our county. Here a foundation of a small (its external length does not exceed 9 m) timber church was unearthed, that could have been timbered in the 11 th century. (Fig. 103.) We can assume that the strengthening of the church organisation during the reign of king St. László can also be traced by the spreading church building activity, that became even more vivid in the 12 th —13 th century. It was connected with the private landlords' demand for church ownership. So, in this time it was made possible to built churches not only for the king and for the church, but also for private landlords under the condition that they were obliged to take care of the church's supply. Later it was allowed to present a church and its patronage together with the land. From our county we know 146 churches defined as ones built in the Árpádian Age. According to our records in the 11 th century two monasteries had been founded in Pest county: the Basilian Abbey of Visegrád (1055) and the Abbey of Mogyoród (1074). King László continued the work started by St. István and with his donations he guaranteed the construction of provostships, monasteries in the whole country. That is how he supported the settling of monastic orders in Hungary. Beside the monasteries of Visegrád and Mogyoród, further monastic orders settled down on the territory of county 414 Szőke 1986. 8-13. 415 For the full summary of the question see Kristó 1988. 214-235. 236
