Hunyad on the Cserna, later the seat of a county (first recorded 1265) and of the great castle of the Hunyadis, cannot be shown to be more than royal land in the voivode's western march on 1 January 1200.
Who holds it
- Name
- King Emeric; the voivode's western march
- Title
- Lord of Hunyad
- Since
- Not pinned
- Confidence
- low
en.wikipedia (Hunyad County): first record of the county in 1265 (Hungnod, papal tithe register); Makkai: Hunyad county created later.
Lord in 1200
The king, through the voivode.
How things stand that morning
Royal land; no county yet.
Communities
Not recorded.
Fairs and markets
None recorded for 1200.
Militia
Not recorded.
Walls and castle
No castle recorded before the county (1265); the great castle is much later.
Trade and crafts
Not recorded for 1200.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: No record before 1265.
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
Sources and studies
- Hunyad County, en.wikipedia
- L. Makkai, Royal Counties in Transylvania, in History of Transylvania I (ed. B. Köpeczi, English ed. 2001)
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.