Zbornik Janković, Vol. VIII No. 10, 2025.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.47325/zj.8.10.1
MEDIEVAL MANORIAL ESTATE RAČA AND THE SASOVEC/TOMAŠEVEC ESTATE SEPARATED FROM IT
Ranko Pavleš
; Koprivnica, Hrvatska
Abstract
This paper presents the available data to date on the medieval manorial estate of Rača and the Tomaševec estate, which was separated from it, namely Sasovec. In the Middle Ages, Rača was a medium-sized manorial estate. There is a lot of data
available, but unfortunately, there is no single comprehensive description of the border, nor are all the settlements of the manorial estate known. Still, it can be assumed that it extended between the Česma River and the Račačka stream in the area of today’s villages of Nova Rača, Tociljevac, Sasovac, Orlovac, Slovinska Kovačica, and probably further to the northeast in the vicinity of Mala and Velika Pisanica. It was located between two other manorial estates, Međurečje to the northwest and Gordova to the east. Of these three estates, Rača was the largest manorial estate with 250 hearth taxes at the beginning of the 16th century. At the end of the 14th century, the Tomaševec estate was separated from the manorial estate, which was later known as Sasovec after the Sas family, its owners. At the time of separation, the estate made up about 10% of the territory of the manorial estate. Predominantly, topographical data were processed: the location of the possible center of the manorial estate, with which two forts near the Česma River, market towns with the church of Saint Nicholas in today’s village of Nova Rača, several villages whose names we know and the borders of which can be partially reconstructed in the west and south from the borders of Sasovec, and on other sides from relations with neighbours. The owners of Rača are listed as follows: from the Podravina nobles Alexander and Mojs, dating back to the middle of the 13th century, through the Polish nobleman Jug Mesćeić and members of the royal family, to the counts of Iločki in the second half of the 15th and the first half of the 16th century. By the 1550s, the manorial estate had been completely devastated in the wars with the Ottomans, and for about eighty years, it was part of the so-called no-man’s-land. Since the new population had no connection to the former, only a few local names from the old toponymy have been preserved, which significantly hinders the reconstruction of the medieval situation.
Keywords
Middle Ages, manorial estate of Rača, Sasovec/Tomaševec estate
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Publication date:
11.2.2026.
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