Nyitra

Who holds it

Name

King Emeric; ispán Vejte of the Csanád kindred, the judge royal (attested 1199-1200)

Title

the king, through the ispán of Nyitra; the bishop of Nyitra in his cathedral

Confidence

high

Lord in 1200

King Emeric through the ispán of Nyitra, Vejte of the Csanád kindred, who is also judge royal (see Vejte, ispán of Nyitra); the bishop of Nyitra holds his cathedral on the castle hill and his own estates (Church map).

How things stand that morning

Royal castle and episcopal see; quiet.

Charter

None. Town privileges come much later (13th century and after).

Council

None; the ispán and the bishop each judge their own people.

Communities

Slav and Hungarian castle folk, the bishop's and the chapter's servants.

Fairs and markets

A market below the castle; dates not pinned.

Militia

The castle warriors of the county.

Walls and castle

The castle hill's fortifications enclose the cathedral; the settlement below is open.

Trade and crafts

Local market of the Nitra valley; the roads to the Váh and Moravia.

Places of note

• Nyitra castle and cathedral: County seat and bishop's church

Where the sources disagree

Evidence: Castle and see well attested; the settlement's details are thin.

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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