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A letter of reward

Sender

Isabella/Elizabeth of Anjou

Receiver

Public

Translated letter:

We E[lizabeth] by the grace of God queen of Hungary commend to memory, signifying to all, that having seen the loyalties and merits of the services of Master Theodore bishop-elect of the church of Alba vice-chancellor of the court of the illustrious king of Hungary, our dearest consort, undertaken with the highest loyalty, we wishing to meet those services with reginal favor, gave, conferred, and handed over a certain reginal land of ours called Iváncsa located near the Danube with all its uses and all its appurtenances, as pertained to our majesy, to that Master Theodore bishop-elect of Alba, and count Ladislaus and Nicholas, his brothers, from the fullness of our favor, to be possessed by right perpetually and peacefully.  Dated on the Island of the Glorious Virgin (the Island of Rabbits) on the octave of St. John the Baptist.

Original letter:

Nos E. Dei gracia Regina Hungarie memorie commendamus significantes vniuersis, quod inspectis fidelitatibus et seruiciorum meritis Magistri Theodori Electi Ecclesie Albensis aule Illustris Regis Hungarie, karissimi consortis nostri Vice Cancellarij nobis cum sumpma fidelitate impensis, nos uolentes ipsius obsequijs occurrere gracia Reginali, quandam terram nostram Reginalem Iwanch uocatam iuxta Danobium existentem cum omnibus utilitatibus et pertinencijs suis uniuersis, prout ad nostram pertinebat Maiestatem, eidem Magistro Theodoro Electo Albensi, et Comiti Ladizlao ac Nicolao fratribus suis de plenitudine nostre gracie dedimus, contulimus et tradidimus iure perpetuo pacifice possidendam.  Datum in Insula Virginis Gloriose in octauis Sancti Johannis Baptiste.

Historical context:

The queen rewards the services of the bishop-elect with a reginal land, Iváncsa .  The charter does not give the year of issue, but Zsoldos argues that since Theodore was elected provost of Fehérvar in 1287, that must be the date of the charter.  The Island of Rabbits is now Margaret Island.  (Attila Zsoldos, The Árpáds and Their Wives, Queenship in Early Medieval Hungary 1000-1301 (Rome:  Viella, 2019), 67-68.

Printed source:

Árpádkori új okmánytár:  Codex diplomaticus Arpadianus continuatus, vols. I-XII, G. Wenzel ed. (Pest-Budapest: 1860-74), 9.571-2, #426.

Date:

1287