Szőcs Péter Levente (szerk.): Ecsed. Ghid cultural şi istoric (Satu Mare, 2009)

Nagyecsed és környéke a középkorban

Váralja were completely deserted at 1423. The swamp covered the walls of the castle, their ruins were visible again only during the serious weather drought of 1794. Stone and brick materials were taken and graves were devastated during the 18th and 19th century. The draining of the swamp (1905) and the land-works of 1£70 completed the destruction.

The settlement of Ecsed (Ecedea), was first mentioned in the Register of Várad (Oradea), in 1220. Zomoy, an official from Ecsed was implied in the process of the people from Tárány and Tyukod. The presence of an official person at Ecsed suggests a kind of importance in the area, therefore, it must be founded somewhat earlier: during the 12th century. The invasion of the Tatars destroyed Ecsed, together with other settlements in the region. The rebuilding, though, was quick, and it became the property of the Dorog family of Gutkeled, in 1290. During the anarchy, which broke out after the extinction of the Árpádian dynasty, Domonkos, son of “Vak” (blind) Dorog and his cousins allied to the palatine Kopasz (of Borsa family), a notorious traitor. They were killed in 1317, in the battle of Debrecen. The winner, King Charles Robert de Anjou donated the properties of the Dorog family at Ecsed to the sons of Bereck (the ancestors of the Báthori family). The new owners completed the domain with the lands of the niece of Dorog, bought in 1322, and with the estate of István of Kántorjánosi, in 1329. Thus, all parts of the former domain of Ecsed became

Ecedea pe harta primei ridicări militare

Ecsed az első katonai felmérésen

Ecsed on the map of the first military survey

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