Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Călătorii istorice pe Valea Someşului. Ghid turistic (Satu Mare, 2014)
Medieşu Aurit
made models and plastic ornaments, characteristic to the Dacian material culture. A group of the graves have a poor inventory, only fibulas were being laid by the bones. Another group of graves can be related to the material culture and to the funeral customs of the Germanic People. The inventory of the graves, especially the shield-buttons with spin, the spear-heads sticked in earth, the spurs and scissors attest the presence of a Vandal warriors living within the free Dacian society, during the Roman Age. Medieşu Aurit is situated on the border between the district of Oaş and the valley of Someş River. Its history remains rather unknown during the early Middle Ages. The earliest mentioning Medieşu Aurit dates back to 1271-1272, when the Stephan V, king of Hungary granted privileges to colonists settled in the area. A decade later, the village became the property of palatine Moys, the ancestor of the Móric family’s, who was the owner of the settlement during the Middle Ages. After more than one century, five papal documents, dating to the 1370s, are the source of major information about the history of the settlement. According to these sources, sometimes before 1215, the locality was taken from the Romanians by the Hungarian King, who sustained actions of conversion to Catholicism, led by the Franciscan Order. The results of this process are visible only in the 1370 s, when the widow of Simon Ban, Catherine de Meggesallia, sustained financially and morally the missionary activity of the Franciscan monks. She managed to draw the attention of the pope on the jurisdictional problems of the Catholic Church in the area, and, as a result, she obtained advantages and exemptions that helped the Catholic parishes to function easier in the Medieş domain. Thus, the taxes owed to Rezervaţia arheologică Medieşu Aurit - Reconstituire locuinţă Aranyosmeggy esi régészeti park - Lakóház rekonstrukciója Archaeological park Medieşu Aurit - Reconstruction of a dwelling 15 Castelul Lányai • Lónyai-kastély • The Lányai Castle
