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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Diploniatarium comitum terrestrium Crisiensium (1274-1439)

retres could have had other assignments, they are not documented, thus for the time being, we cannot refer to them.

Comes terrestris was one of the castle warriors. He had full authority in questions connected with the estates of the castle,107 and he could issue charters independently. In the fourteenth century, if one of the parties was not a castle warrior, but belonged to some other social group, then the comes terrestris could not act independently. In those cases, the comes of Križevci was involved, and both of these comites issued charters together, confirming them with both of their seals.108 If the current comes terrestris was one of the parties in a dispute or in the case that a member of his kindred was involved, then only the comes of Križevci or the county authorities could conduct an investigation and issuee a document. This happened in 1370, when Peter Csirke and the noble magistrates of Križevci issued and confirmed a charter with their seals. This charter described a dispute over a certain estate between a comes terrestris, John, son of Benedict, and Andrew, son of Wlkin.109 In the fifteenth century we know of such cases when comes terrestris issued a purchase charter in cases between the nobiles castri and those who have become true nobles.110

107 Certain members of the Hegen kindred requested from comes terrestris Valentin, son of Blaise, the perambulation of three of their estates in 1408, because some of the portiones possessionarie terre forent castrenses (Documenta 28). The independence in issuing charters is also stressed by: Adamček, Rovišćanski predijalci, p. 152. It has already been emphasized in the scholarship that the comes terrestris was connected with all legal afairs regarding land and estates. See more: Ćuk, Plemeniti Križevčani, pp. 65-66; Buturac, Rovišće, pp. 13-14.

ros yye know about one charter issued by the comes terrestris of Križevci, and we cannot claim that any of the parties involved were castle warriors. Thomas, son of Michael the Hungarian (Hungarus), called Zakalas, as well as his sons Andrew and John, sold one of their estates to the comes of Križevci, Paul the Great. Then, the comes's personal involvement did not allow him to issue a charter, but it is also possible that Tom and his sons were castle warriors connected with the Križevci castle, although it is not mentioned in the charter itself (22 March 1362: Documenta 11).

109 5 November 1370 (HDA, DMV, no. 888; MNL OL, DF 219 397).

110 In May 1413 in the presence of the comes terrestris Valentin of Poljana, George, son of Demetrius de Zedlaurieuch, a nobilis castri, sold an estate to a group of nobiles castri, Paul literatus, priest Demetrius and Valentin, all three sons of George, son of Stephen. The buyers in the charter are referred to as nobiles regni de Polana (Documenta 38). From that period there is a charter in which a person, who was probably an ennobled castle warrior, acted in the presence of the comes terrestris in a dispute regarding an estate that was situated inter generációmul nobilium castri de genere Hegen (1 February 1418: Documenta 46).

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