Drăgan, Ioan (szerk.): Mediaevalia Transilvanica 2000 (4. évfolyam, 1-2. szám)
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26 Ana Dumitran, Antal Lukács (belligerandi duntaxat ac immunitate excepta [!], quam ex nostro et successorum nostrorum legitimorumque Transilvaniae principum arbitrio et ordinatione semper defendere volumus et jubemus.) acceptavimus, approbavimus, ratificavimus et confirmavimus, imo acceptamus, approbamus, ratificamus et confirmamus, harum nostrarum vigore et testimonio literarum mediante. In cuius rei memoriam firmitatemque perpetuam praesentes literas nostras pendentis et authentici sigilli nostri munimine roboratas memoratis incolis et inhabitatoribus sedis Siculicalis Kaszon successoribusque ac haeredibus et posteritatibus ipsorum universis gratiose dandas esse duximus et concedendas. Datum in civitate nostra Alba Iulia dje vigesima sexta mensis Augusti anno Domini millesimo sexcentesimo vigesimo sexto. The Privileges Granted to the Caşin Seat (Summary) The article tackles the evolution of the Szeklers' seat of Caşin between the 14lh and the 17lh centuries A. D. The smallest of the Szeklers’ judicial and administrative districts (made up of only four villages), the Caşin seat had as its purpose the safe-keeping of the road to Moldavia, enjoying special treatment due to this, both on the part of the Hungarian Kings and of the Transylvanian Princes later. It may probably be in connection with the Eastern policy of the Hungarian Kings towards the end of the 14th century that the Caşin seat declared its independence from the Ciuc seat, a branch of which it had previously been. In his 1462 Privilege Act, King Mathias Corvin mentioned that his predecessor, Sigismund of Luxemburg, had granted the Szeklers from Caşin the right to choose their own captain and magistrate and to hold trials. The other diplomas conferring privileges are related to the conflicts with the Ciuc seat, consequences of the above mentioned declared autonomy, or represent rewards obtained by its inhabitants for having fulfilled military duties as subjects of the King and of the Prince respectively. Only five of the ten Privilege Acts granted to the Caşin seat have been known to the specialists so far. However, none of them has been published after its original. Four of these (issued by Mathias Corvin, Christophor Báthori, Sigismund Báthori and Gabriel Báthori), including two novelties (emitted by Christophor Báthori and Sigismund Báthori), can be found in the collection of the National Museum of the Union from Alba Iulia, the possession of which they have become under unknown circumstances. Conceivably dating from the years following 1929, their first acknowledgement as part of the patrimony of the Museum of Alba Iulia was done in 1939. (translated by Catalina Dogaru)
