Professional paper
https://doi.org/10.21857/y26keclx39
Medieval Charters from the Collection of Fran Gundrum in the Archive of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts (1268 – 1526)
Éva B. Halász
orcid.org/0000-0003-1044-7407
; Research group for study of Hungarian Middle Ages, HAS-MHI-SzU-HNA, Budapest-Szeged, Hungary
Abstract
The article contains the edition of medieval charters kept in the Archive of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the collection of Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin (1856-1919), a Croatian cultural and public activist living in the second half of the nineteenth century and the beginning of the twentieth century. He was active in promoting healthy living and fighting against alcoholisme and smoking. He extensively published on both medical and cultural matters. Interests of Fran Gundrum for history reflected also in the fact that he collected a charter collection, which later became a part of the collection of charters of the Archive of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts as a separate archival series, where it is kept also now. A part of Gundrum’s collection, that is the documents issued prior to the Battle of Mohács of 1526 (traditional ending of the Middle Ages in Hungarian and Croatian historiography) is published in this article. The documents may be divided in two groups, the first one containing charters of the medieval town/city of Križevci and the second containing those referring to the castle warriors (jobagiones castri) and later noblemen of Križevci and Veliki Kalnik, particularly those of the noblemen of Patak.
The Gundrum Collection consists of 29 original medieval charters, some of which contain also transcripts of earlier documents, so that the total number of documents is 32. Only two of these charters are known also from other copies: a copy of the charter of the Zagreb chapter of 12 May 1354 containing two other documents and extant only in an early modern copy (the original of which is kept in the State Archive of Croatia), and the original charter of Ban Ulrik of Cili of 15 May 1454, whose medieval copies are now kept in the Deutschordenszentralarchiv in Vienna and the main charter collection (Diplomata) of the Archive of Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb.
Keywords
Fran Gundrum Oriovčanin; Križevci; the Križevci County; medieval Slavonia; medieval charters
Hrčak ID:
281721
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Publication date:
13.9.2022.
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