Megyetörténet. Egyház- és igazgatástörténeti tanulmányok a veszprémi püspökség 1009. évi adománylevele tiszteletére - A Veszprém Megyei Levéltár kiadványai 22. (Veszprém, 2010)
Tanulmányok a megyei igazgatás történetéről - Tringli István: Pest és Pilis megye sajátos viszonyai a török hódítás előtt
Tringli István Peculiarities of Pest and Pilis counties before the Turkish conquest Numerous peculiarities can be observed in the functioniong of counties being around the capital in the middle of the kingdom. Two counties were located in this region during the middle ages: county Pest and Pilis and the Island of Csepel, which was a royal domain independent from the system of counties. No castle territories can be noticed in Pest county during the Arpadian- period, where armed people under the direction of the count (comes) would have lived. No remains of a castle is recorded in Pest, which is on the left-bank side of today’s Budapest. County Pest never had a count appointed by the monarch; the county tribunal was led by the vicepalatinus, one of the judges of the palatine since the early 13th century to as long as 1342. From 1342 it was four district administrators (szolgabírós = judices nobilium), elected by the nobility, who adjudicated at the comitial court. The monarch no longer appointed counts for county Pilis as well from the mid-15th century: two szolgabírós led the county. The seat of the comitial court and the day of adjudication varied in county Pest as long as until the 1480s. The territory of county Pilis was enlarged in the 1340s during the reign of king Lajos the Great with a couple of villages at the Southern region, and new settlements were also annexed from Pest county afterwards. Csepel Island remained a separate royal or reginai domain under the direction of a count until the reign of king Matthias (1458-1490), nevertheless it functioned unlike other counties. A bill in 1495 ordered noblemen to take part in comitial courts of Pest and Pilis besides szolgabírós. There also existed a court in county Pest under the direction of the szolgabírós, where matters of the comitial court were discussed on the first instance by the assistance of local noblemen. This very region belonged partly to the diocese of Vác and that of Veszprém. The diocese of Vác, uniquely among medieval Hungarian dioceses, consisted solely of county-parts, not of integral counties. The diocese contained the most exempt churches, churches taken out from the jurisdiction of the bishop and ordered under that of the archbishop of Esztergom. No large secular domains existed in Pest and Pilis counties, apart from one baronial demesne in the Eastern part of the former. Influential aristocrats owned one or two villages in these counties to supply provisions for their court in Buda or Visegrád. Royal estates were not bestowed by king Sigismund (1387-1437), and the monarch even retrieved some private domains in the region at the end of his reign. It was predialis noblemen who lived in the Csepel Island, not on private, but on royal domains. 418
