Kalocsa

Who holds it

Name

Saul Győr

Title

Archbishop of Kalocsa (and Bács)

Since

1192 (bishop of Csanád 1188-92)

Confidence

high

Of the Óvár branch of the Győr kindred, one of the five sons of Stephen I of Győr; his brothers include the palatine Csépán and Maurus, ban of the coastland. A royal notary by 1183 and chancellor about 1188 under Béla III. He backs Emeric, but not without reservations: in 1198 he excommunicated Bishop Elvin of Várad for simony against the king's strong objection. He and his brothers found the abbey of Lébény after 1199. Dies early 1202.

What it holds

• Kalocsa: the archbishop's town and cathedral
• Tithes and ship tolls of the surrounding villages, given to the chapter (confirmed June 1198)
• Bács: the second cathedral; the castle and county there are royal (not drawn)

How it was acquired

Royal foundation in St Stephen's time, with later royal grants.

How things stand that morning

Held.

Wealth

Danube shipping tolls, tithes and the estates of the plain.

Threats

• The rivalry with Esztergom
• Royal pressure on church elections and discipline

Advocates and rivals

Esztergom, which claims precedence and the coronation; the king's county officers.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Saul's career is well summarised by Wikipedia. The extent of the archbishop's lordship at Kalocsa in 1200 is not pinned; drawn as the modern town.

On the map: The modern municipality stands in for the archbishop's town and nearest estates.

Primary sources for Hungary

Chronicles, registers, sagas and inscriptions written in or near 1200 that cover this entry. Each has its own page with editions, translations and where to read it.

• Chronicle of Alberic of Trois-Fontaines, Alberic of Trois-Fontaines (about 1227 to 1241, at the Cistercian abbey of Trois-Fontaines in Champagne). The widest net of any Latin chronicle for 1200, compiled from dozens of sources, many now lost. Read online
• The Austrian and Salzburg annals (kept in the 12th and 13th centuries, with continuations to the late 13th century). A family of monastic annals from Austria, Styria and Salzburg, printed together. Read online
• The Hypatian Chronicle (the Kievan Chronicle compiled about 1200 at the Vydubichi monastery; the Galician-Volhynian Chronicle in the 13th century). The southern record. Read online
• History of the bishops of Salona and Split, by Thomas the Archdeacon, Thomas of Split (about 1266). Written two generations later by a Split churchman born about 1200. Read online
• History of the doges of Venice (about 1229, with a continuation). The earliest surviving Venetian narrative close to the events. Read online
• The Deeds of the Hungarians, by the Anonymous Notary of King Béla, Anonymus (P. magister) (about 1200 to 1210, the date disputed). Not a record of events but a picture of the kingdom's nobility and geography as a courtier of about 1200 wished to see it: the clans and their lands, the castles and counties, the Vlachs, Cumans and other peoples of the Carpathian basin, all projected back onto the conquest. Read online
• The Book of Census of the Roman Church, Cencius Camerarius (Cencio Savelli, later Pope Honorius III) (1192, with later additions). The papal rent roll: every church, monastery, town and kingdom that owed a census to Rome in 1192, diocese by diocese, with the sums, followed by lists of papal lands and castles, the ceremonial Ordo and copies of charters. Read online
• The Registers of Pope Innocent III for 1199 to 1201, Innocent III and the papal chancery (22 February 1199 to 21 February 1201). The pope's outgoing letters for the year, in his chancery's own copy, touching nearly every realm in the atlas. Read online

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