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Viscount and Vicar as Officials of the Counts of Krk in the City of Senj (from 1271 to 1469)
Ozren Kosanović
; Odsjek za povijest, Filozofski fakultet, Sveučilište u Rijeci
Sažetak
The article analyses the functions of viscount and vicar as officials of the Counts of Krk (since the times of Count Nicholas IV called the Frankapani) in the city of Senj during two centuries of their rule over the city. While discussing data concerning these offices, it offers some new hypotheses and reevaluates the existing historiography. The viscounts of the Counts of Krk in the majority of cases were members of two prominent noble families of Senj. This was not the result of city statute regulations (as some authors state emphatically), but was a practice that the counts enforced. That remained unchanged during the fourteenth century, even though the counts appointed all their officials according to their will. Some authors maintain that the vicar was the deputy of a viscount. In this article, it is established that the vicar was beneath the viscount in the hierarchy, but did not act as his deputy. Furthermore, the counts regularly appointed foreigners as vicars. It seems that this was the way in which the counts tried to weaken the positions of the noble oligarchy of Senj towards the end of the fourteenth century. Both of these officials had more or less the same jurisdiction in the city (according to the statute of 1388). As the city statute and other sources show, they, for example, both had the right to preside in the court, and could sentence proven criminals, and give authorisation to city notaries for making copies of private documents (testaments, contracts, etc.). Unfortunately, the small number of fifteenth-century sources at our disposal could not suffice for further analysis of these offices during that period. The article contains also some data on the individuals who served the counts in these offices and a partial reconstruction of the time that they spent in those offices.
Ključne riječi
Senj; viscount; vicar; Counts of Krk; the Frankapani; the Central Middle Ages; the Late Middle Ages
Hrčak ID:
116531
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Datum izdavanja:
30.12.2013.
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