Miskolc kindred

Who he is

Name

Dominic, if still alive (last seen 1195; dead by 1207), and his son Bors; other members not pinned

Title

the Miskolc (Miskóc) kindred (nemzetség)

Family

Dominic is the first known member of the kindred's Borsmonostor branch; a doubtful charter of 1194 calls him the king's kinsman (cognatus). His son Bors married a daughter of dux Velek; his daughter Elizabeth married Sebes of the Hont-Pázmány, founder of the Szentgyörgyi line.

Confidence

low

Dominic was judge royal 1188-1193, ispán of Bodrog 1192-1193 and ban of Slavonia 1194-1195, and founded the Cistercian abbey of Borsmonostor (Klostermarienberg) in Sopron county in 1194; he is last recorded in 1195 and was dead by 1207. The place Miskolc is named 'Miscoucy' in a source of about 1200; the kindred appears in charters of 1225, 1230 and 1245. No member's side in 1199 is recorded.

Overlord

King Emeric of Hungary

What it holds

• Miskolc and the villages of the lower Szinva and Sajó

How it was acquired

Ancestral (not pinned).

Allies and rivals

Marriage tie to the Hont-Pázmány (Elizabeth and Sebes). No feud recorded.

How things stand that morning

Estates held; side not pinned.

Wealth

Farmland and vineyards at the Bükk foot; the Sajó road.

Military

Household retinues; no castle in 1200.

Threats

• none pinned for 1200

Places of note

• Miskolc: The kindred's land, 'Miscoucy' about 1200
• Tapolca abbey: Benedictine abbey at the Bükk edge (Church map)

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Dominic's career is charter-based (Zsoldos); the Borsod estates are inferred from the name and later charters; the kindred's 1200 heads are not pinned.

On the map: Approximate block round the later town.

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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