Szék is a salt-digging village in the Mezőség of Doboka county, in the land tradition gives to the Zsombor kindred; its salt is the king's in 1200 (not pinned).
Who holds it
- Name
- King Emeric (royal salt in Doboka county)
- Title
- Lord of Szék
- Since
- Not pinned
- Confidence
- low
hu.wikipedia (Doboka vármegye): the salt mine of Szék in the Zsombor kindred's traditional land; one of the county's largest settlements.
Lord in 1200
The king.
How things stand that morning
Royal salt place.
Communities
Hungarian salt diggers (later records).
Fairs and markets
None recorded for 1200.
Militia
Not recorded.
Walls and castle
None recorded.
Trade and crafts
Salt digging.
Where the sources disagree
Evidence: Tradition and later records.
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
Last revised 4 November 2026. Published 4 November 2026. Suggest a correction on the OMNIA Discord.