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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Diplomatarium comitum terrestrium Crisiensium (1274-1439)

and stole his robe, and he also took away three pigs of a tenant-peasant by the name of Petk. After the inquest was completed, the comes and the comes terrestris established that Luke was guilty, his estates were forfeited and a third of them went to Mika, and two thirds to them.81 Luke appealed to the court of Ban Mikes of Slavonia, but unsuccessfully, because the ban confirmed the sentence and took for himself a part of the forfeited estates.82 In the sources issued by the ban of Slavonia, the comes and the comes terrestris of Križevci, Mika, son of Matthew, is no longer mentioned and we cannot determine to which kindred he belonged.83 Mika's son, Nicholas, is mentioned in the sources in 1346, when King Louis I came to Zadar in 1346, which was then besieged by the Venetians. There was also the army of the Ban of Slavonia-Croatia, Nicholas Hahót, who had brought with him Slavonian troops. During the siege, in the beginning of July 1346, the ban has issued a charter with which he ennobled a castle warrior Nicholas, son of Mika, for his injuries sustained in the fights and because of his faithful service.84

Peter, son of Nicholas, is mentioned as the comes terrestris of Križevci in the period from 1343 to 1344. His full title is given in the aforemen-81 22 September 1340 (Documenta 6).

82 21 October 1340 (CD 10, doc. 410).

83 In the sources of the comites terrestres of Križevci, individuals whose father was named Matthew are mentioned two more times. In those cases, the person in question was Salamon, for whom it is specifically said that he belonged to the Hegen kindred (20 March 1344: Documenta 7; 28 November 1355: Documenta 8). Since we do not have any other information confirming that Salamon and Matthew were brothers, the identification of comes terrestris Mika as a member of the Hegen kindred is not possible beyond any reasonable doubt.

84 6 July 1346: nos attendentes et circumspicientes fidelotates et fidelium serviciorum merita ac effusiones sanguinum Nicolai fili Myke nobilis iobagionis castri Crisiensis, qui, dum excellentissimus princeps dominus Lodovicus Dei gratia inclitus rex Hungarie scitatum Venetorum capitalium inimicorum suorum ante Jadram constitutum dei sabati post festum beatorum Petri et Pauli apostolorum una cum sua et suorum banorum ac nostra potencia et gente expugnari fecisset, vulnera mortifera per ictus sagittarum pro exaltacione honoris regiminis sub nostro vexillo viriliter in se resumpmere non formidavit (CD 11, doc. 231). The document is extant in several transcripts. We know about the charter issued by Duke Stephen of Anjou on 27 November 1353 to Gregory, another son of Mika, which was also included in the donation (CD 12, doc. 158). Also, we know about the charter of the chapter of Zagreb of 11 November 1372, when Mika's grandson Peter literatus went to copy a charter of King Louis the Great of 2 February 1355 by which the king confirmed the aforementioned duke's charter (CD 14, doc. 352). Nicholas, as son of comes terrestris Mika, son of Matthew, descended from the aforementioned comes Pesek. It is very probable; therefore, that he was a member of the kindred of the castle warriors of Križevci under the name of Matthew. On the family, see: Ćuk, Plemeniti Križevčani, p. 50.

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