Luka kindreds

Who he is

Title

Count (župan) of Luka and the heads of the local kindreds

Family

The Lapčani take their name from Lapac in the Luka county (not Lapac in Lika); their joint centre with the Karinjani at Karin is recorded in the 14th century. The Šubić of Bribir were reckoned to the Luka kindreds; Majnarić doubts that the Mogorović, Polečić and Snačić were tied only to Luka.

Confidence

low

Hrvatska enciklopedija (Lapčani); English Wikipedia (Twelve noble tribes of Croatia; Šubić family).

Overlord

The king, through the ban

What it holds

• Kindred lands in the Ravni kotari between Zara's and Nona's districts and Bribir: Karin, Lapac (in Luka), Benkovac country.

How it was acquired

Hereditary kindred lands.

Allies and rivals

Zara's citizens buy land from them; the Templars at Vrana (Church map) are their neighbours to the south.

How things stand that morning

Kindred lands under the crown; no holder named.

Wealth

Grain and flocks of the plain; sales of land to Zara's citizens.

Military

Kindred retinues.

Threats

• Being drawn into the war between Zara and Venice.

Places of note

• Karin: Later common centre of the Lapčani and Karinjani (coordinates approximate).

Where the sources disagree

• The assignment's 'Lapac' for this kindred is Lapac in the Luka county near Zadar, not Donji Lapac in Lika (Hrvatska enciklopedija, Lapčani).

Evidence: Kindred names from later sources; nothing dated for 1200.

On the map: A sketch of the kindreds' country; where Zara's and Nona's districts end is dal's to draw.

Primary sources for Croatia and Dalmatia

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.

• 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 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
• Charters of the kingdom of Croatia, Dalmatia and Slavonia, volume 2, 1101 to 1200 (documents of 1101 to 1200, edited 1904). The Croatian and Dalmatian charters to 1200: the acts of Duke Andrew as lord of Croatia and Dalmatia (1197 to 1204), the Hungarian kings' grants, the Templars and the bishops of Zagreb, Split, Zadar and Trogir, the communal statutes of the coastal towns, and the papal letters of 1200 to Emeric about Ban Kulin of Bosnia and heresy. Read online
• Hungarian royal charters: Fejér's Codex diplomaticus and Szentpétery's critical calendar of the Árpád kings (documents of the 11th to 13th centuries; Fejér published 1829 to 1844, Szentpétery vol. 1 in 1923). The documentary base for Hungary in 1200: King Emeric's grants to Pannonhalma, the bishops, the Templars and Hospitallers, Duke Andrew's acts in Croatia and Dalmatia, and the papal letters of 1200 to Emeric about his brother's rebellion and about heresy in Bosnia. Read online
• Documents on the older commercial and political history of the Republic of Venice, part 1, 814 to 1205 (documents of 814 to 1205, edited 1856). Venice's treaties and privileges in full text. Read online