Osl kindred

Who he is

Name

Not pinned for 1200. The English Wikipedia ban list names Emeric's ban of 1199-1200 'Benedict Osl', which would make him the kindred's leading man; but Kádár (2018) identifies that ban with Benedict son of Korlát and Zsoldos (2011) with the palatine Benedict of 1202-1204

Title

Kindred (nemzetség) of Osl

Family

One of the old Hungarian kindreds of the Gesta, of the Rábaköz in Sopron and Győr counties. Later lines: the Kanizsai (from Thomas of Csorna), the Ostffy and the Viczay.

Confidence

low

English Wikipedia, Ban of Croatia (list) and Osl (genus); Benedict, son of Korlát (Kádár 2018, Zsoldos 2011).

Overlord

King Emeric

What it holds

• Osli and the Rábaköz estates (not pinned in detail)
• Csorna (later the Kanizsai line's seat)

How it was acquired

Ancestral.

How things stand that morning

Holding its Rábaköz estates; its side is not pinned unless the ban Benedict was an Osl.

Places of note

• Osli: The kindred's name-place.

Where the sources disagree

• The ban of 1199-1200 is 'Benedict Osl' in the English Wikipedia list but Benedict son of Korlát in Kádár (2018) and the later palatine Benedict in Zsoldos (2011).

Evidence: The kindred's 1200 estates and men are not documented in the sources checked; the link to the ban rests on one list.

On the map: Two centres only.

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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