Original scientific paper
The Aristocratic Čupor Moslavački Family
Zrinka Nikolić Jakus
; Department of History, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
Abstract
The mighty aristocratic stock Čupor Moslavački is found under this name in historical sources in the first half of the 14th century. In historiography, the belief prevails that they were the descendants of the even older aristocratic stock Moslavački (de Monoszló), who had owned the Moslavina manor since the second half of the 12th century; this confirms the fact that names were inherited in both stocks. There is, however, another theory present – that they were the descendants of the Hungarian aristocratic stock of Csupor. They had ruled Moslavina until the male line extinction in 1492; they owned estates in the counties of Zagreb and Križevci, and for a while even in the counties of Vukovar and Bačka. Stjepan (*1256–*1293), with the nickname of Čupor (Hung. pot, jar?), was the progenitor of the Čupor Moslavački branch, which experienced yet another rise at the end of the 14th century. The most prominent family members were the following: Vice-Roy Toma (1217–1231); Egidije (†1313); Pavao (†1415), Vice-Roy of Slavonia (known in connection to the conflict with the Bosnian Duke Hrvoje Vukčić Hrvatinić, which was described in a number of anecdotes); his son Demetrije, Bishop of Knin, Zagreb and Gyor (†1468); and Nikola (†1473), Duke of Erdelj and a well-known soldier in the times of the rule of King Matthias Corvinus (1458–1490). The article offers a survey on the history and the relevance of the family in the history of Moslavina and Croatia in general; it further portrays several most significant family members. The article also brings several corrections relating to the family genealogy as it had been presented in historiography so far.
Keywords
Čupor; Moslavački (Monoszló); aristocratic stock; the Middle Ages; Moslavina
Hrčak ID:
77009
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Publication date:
30.12.2011.
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