Szászváros is the westernmost place of German guests in 1200, on the Maros road between Gyulafehérvár and Déva.
Unlike the Altland, its Germans stood under the bishop of Transylvania, not the Hermannstadt provost; only in 1224 does the Andreanum join it to the Saxon province ('from Waras to Boralt').
Who holds it
- Name
- King Emeric; the voivode's march
- Title
- Lord of Szászváros
- Since
- Not pinned
- Confidence
- low
The Andreanum (1224) names Waras (Szászváros) as the western end of the Saxon province; de.wikipedia: Broos appears in the Saxons' foundation legend; Makkai notes it had a Hungarian name by 1224. Its German guests belonged to the bishop of Transylvania's parishes, not the provostry (1192).
Lord in 1200
The king, through the voivode; in church matters the bishop of Transylvania.
How things stand that morning
A village of royal guests in the voivode's western march.
Communities
German (Flemish) guests among Hungarians, in the bishop's parishes.
Fairs and markets
None recorded for 1200.
Militia
The guests' armed men (not recorded for 1200).
Walls and castle
None recorded; the fortified church is later.
Trade and crafts
Farming village on the Maros road between Gyulafehérvár and Déva.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Named only from 1224.
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
- Siebenbürger Sachsen, de.wikipedia
- L. Makkai, Saxon Settlement and the Reorganization of the Southern Border Defences, History of Transylvania I
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.