Doboka castle

Who holds it

Name

King Emeric, through the count of Doboka (not named for 1200)

Title

Lord of Doboka

Since

Count first recorded 1164

Confidence

low

hu.wikipedia (Doboka vármegye); Makkai.

Lord in 1200

The count of Doboka for the king.

How things stand that morning

County castle.

Communities

Hungarian castle folk.

Fairs and markets

None recorded for 1200.

Militia

Castle warriors of Doboka county.

Walls and castle

Earth-and-timber county castle on an older stronghold.

Trade and crafts

County market (not recorded).

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Count 1164; the castle known from excavation.

Primary sources for Transylvania (voivode Legforus)

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.

• 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
• 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