B. Halász Eva - Suzana Miljan (szerk.): Diplomatarium comitum terrestrium Crisiensium (1274-1439) (Subsidia ad historiam medii aevi Hungariae inquirendam 6. Budapest - Zagreb 2014)
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Comes terrestris Crisiensis. An introductory study be found. During the fourteenth century two counties, Križevci43 and Zagreb, each with relatively large surface areas, were formed south of the Drava alongside the smaller county of Varaždin. The former castlesystem was integrated with these counties and these castle districts were left with a certain part of independence. The castle warriors belonging to these castle districts maintained at least some of their privileges. They did not fall into serfdom, nor into (lesser) nobility, but formed a special administrative unit within a county44 headed by a comes terrrestris.45 The pattern can also be seen in the cases when such districts devolved into the property of ecclesiastical or lay magnates from royal hands. Therefore, in medieval Slavonia we can distinguish three intertwined forms of lesser nobility: those belonging to royal castles and those residing on the estates of ecclesiastical or lay magnates.46 Two castle districts, Veliki Kalnik and Križevci, remained in the hands of the king until the end of the Middle Ages, though they were held by the Ban of Slavonia on royal behalf. There exists a significant corpus of source material for the study of Veliki Kalnik castle, its castle district, castle warriors and the castle-folk (castrenses) subordinated to them. Therefore shedding light on its past should be a topic for a separate study.47 43 On the development of the county of Križevci and the castle districts incorporated within it during the fourteenth century, see: Pesty, A magyarországi várispánságok története, pp. 224-244, 262, 276-281, 301-303, 319-324, 389-397; Kristó, A vármegyék kialakulása, pp. 311-318. 44 In this work the term castle district or noble district shall be alternatively used as synonyms. 45 For the fate of castle districts north of the river Drava and their castle warriors, see in: Zsoldos, A szent király szabadjai. 46 Csánki, Körösmegye a XV-ik században, p. 120. Into dependence of private possessors came, for instance, castle district of Rovišće (Elemér Mályusz, Zsigmond király uralma Magyarországon [The Rule of King Sigismund in Hungary], Budapest 1984, pp. 133-135; N. Klaić, Hrvati u razvijenom srednjem vijeku, pp. 238, 515-516; Adamček, Rovišćanski predijalci, pp. 155-158; Nógrády, Obitelji Szerdahelyi i Rovišće, pp. 65- 73; Szeberényi, Plemići, predijalci i iobagiones castri Rovišća, pp. 36, 50-52). Under ecclesiastical administration laid Čazma, Dubrava and Vaška (Pesty, A magyarországi várispánságok története, pp. 201-202; N. Klaić, Hrvati u razvijenom srednjem vijeku, p. 270, 563-564). For general discussion of the question of Slavonian nobiles castri, see: Bónis: Hűbériség és rendiség, pp. 243-260. 47 Briefly on the structure of castle districts during the age of the Árpáds, see: Kristó, A vármegyék kialakulása, pp. 311-312; N. Klaić, Hrvati u razvijenom srednjem vijeku, pp. 262, 524. For an overview of the history of the castle district of Križevci, cf.: Pesty, A magyarországi várispánságok története, pp. 276-281; Dobronić, Kolnički plemenitaši, pp. 11-14. A history of the fourteenth-century castle districts of Kalnik, see especially: Eva B. Halász, Nagykemlék - egy szalvón várispánság a 14. században [Veliki Kalnik - One Castle District in the Fourteeth century], manuscript of the conference 117
