Arad, Zaránd, Temes

Who he is

Name

Not named in the sources reached for 1199-1200

Title

Ispáns (comites) of Arad, Zaránd and Temes

Since

not pinned

Born

not pinned

Family

Clement (Kelemen) of the Csanád kindred is said to have been ispán of Arad at some time before 1218 (Hungarian Wikipedia, Csanád nemzetség): not dated.

Confidence

low

See Pest, Solt, Csongrád, Békés. Temes county is first named in 1212 (English Wikipedia).

Overlord

King Emeric.

What it holds

• Arad county with Arad castle and the provostry of St Martin (Church map).
• Zaránd county with Zaránd castle and the Fehér-Körös valley up to the Hunyad border.
• Temes county with Temesvár castle in the marshes.

How it was acquired

Royal counties since the eleventh or twelfth century.

How things stand that morning

Royal counties under ispáns serving Emeric as far as any evidence shows; no ispán named for the day.

Wealth

Each ispán takes his share of the county's royal revenues (tolls, court fines, the castle folk's dues); the rest goes to the king.

Military

County castles of Arad, Zaránd and Temesvár; castle warriors.

Places of note

• Arad castle: County seat on the Maros.
• Zaránd castle: County seat.
• Temesvár: County castle in the marshes.

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Counties certain (Temes first named 1212); ispáns of 1199-1200 not named in the sources reached.

On the map: Later medieval bounds; Torontál is not yet a county.

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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