Boyar of Fogaras

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The boyars of Fogaras (now Făgăraș in Romania) were a group of Vlach (or Romanian) conditional nobles in the medieval Kingdom of Hungary and the Principality (and Grand Principality) of Transylvania.

Background

The earliest

Cuciulata in 1372 and Mândra in 1401.[4]

Basarab Laiotă – regularly granted estates to their boyars or awarded the heads of the local communities with the title boyar.[6]

History

In 1372

Mircea I of Wallachia gives the village of Szkore to Stanciul the hegumen and his brother Călin, and in 1400 he strengthens to his boyars Micul and Stoia the dominion over half of the village of Mondra.[7] The boyars Ion, Borcea and Călin had during Mircea's reign three villages with the mountains that belonged to them, and the boyar Costea had two and a half villages.[8]

Through a document from June 10, 1417,[9] Mircea I of Wallachia strengthened Ion, Borcea[10] and Calian,[11][12]

"To the boyar of my lordship so that their village may be Árpásthou and Vad [...], of estate and inheritance and of all the services and gifts and tithes, as many as they will find in the whole land of the country [...] lordship my."

We mention that the Borcea family name still exists in Vad, and the Calian family name is found in the neighboring village, Sinke.

In 1437 the boyar Stanciu and his brother Roman receive from

Radu cel Frumos more than 13 villages and 3 mountains.[13]

Towards the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the following century, the history of Fogaras district experienced a more turbulent period.[14] In 1508 a boyar revolt tried unsuccessfully to bring the country under the rule of the Muntenian voivode Mihnea cel Rău.[15]

The 1640 conscription counts 248 boyars in the Fogaras domain. In 1648, 87 boyars appeared in the fields of Porumbáktanya and Kwmana (Komána/Comăna).

Zsuzsanna Lorántffy (1600-1660), the wife of the prince of Transylvania George I Rákóczi, the mistress of the Făgăraș Citadel, issued 21 boyar diplomas, in some cases confirming "their old boyar rights". Residents of Bucsum, Also Uczya (Alsóucsa/Ucea de Sus), Also Venechia (Veneția de Jos), Dragos (Drăguș), Sinke, Hirszen (Hârseni) received such diplomas.[16]

In the conscription from 1720 to 1721 in 53 villages belonging to the Făgăraș, Porumbac and Comăna domains, 725 boyars have appeared.[17]

References

  1. ^ Curta 2006, p. 354–355.
  2. ^ a b Curta 2006, p. 354.
  3. ^ Makkai 1994, p. 189.
  4. ^ a b c Makkai 1994, p. 191.
  5. ^ a b Pop 2005, p. 249.
  6. ^ Costea 2009, p. 216.
  7. ^ Pascu, pp. 56-57
  8. ^ Panaitescu, p. 245
  9. ^ Valentina Popa - Țara Făgărașului sub stăpânirea domnilor munteni, in Cumidava VI, (1973), Muzeul Județean Brașov, Brașov.
  10. ^ „O parte a acestei familii a trecut în Săliște”. In C. Stan, Școala poporană din Făgăraș și depe Târnave, Vol. I, Făgărașul, p. 456
  11. ^ Probabil, identic cu Călin.
  12. ^ „Din Caliani se trage generalul austriac Caliani, care s-a remarcat în revoluția dela 1848.” Vd. C. Stan, Școala poporană din Făgăraș și depe Târnave, Vol. I, Făgărașul, p. 456.
  13. ^ Pascu, p. 57
  14. ^ Lukács, p. 63
  15. ^ Drăgan, p. 229
  16. ^ Florentin Olteanu, Ana Mago, Lucreția Olteanu, Cetatea principeselor, In: Muzeul Țării Făgărașului „Valer Literat”, 720 de ani de istorie a Făgărașului (2011), p.51.
  17. ^ Prodan, pp 93, 95

Sources

  • Costea, Ionuț (2009). "Social Structures". In Pop, Ioan-Aurel; Nägler, Thomas; Magyari, András (eds.). The History of Transylvania, Volume II (From 1541 to 1711). Romanian Academy, Center for Transylvanian Studies. pp. 199–225.
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  • Makkai, László (1994). "The Emergence of the Estates (1172–1526)". In Köpeczi, Béla; Barta, Gábor; Bóna, István; Makkai, László; Szász, Zoltán; Borus, Judit (eds.). History of Transylvania. Akadémiai Kiadó. pp. 178–243.
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  • Pop, Ioan-Aurel (2005). "Romanians in the 14th–16th Centuries: From the "Christian Republic" to the "Restoration of Dacia"". In Pop, Ioan-Aurel; Bolovan, Ioan (eds.). History of Romania: Compendium. Romanian Cultural Institute (Center for Transylvanian Studies). pp. 209–314.
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