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An assignment

Sender

Isabella/Elizabeth of Anjou

Receiver

Peter, in the service of Queen Isabella

Translated letter:

Isabella, by the grace of God queen of Hungary to her faithful servant Peter, greetings and grace.  Since we conferred our wine-givers from the towns of Symeg and Sumodor with all their lands and rights on the sisters of the church of the Blessed Virgin of the Island to serve in their usual condition, we command, ordering your loyalty, that you go, and having taken the witness of the chapter of Buda with you, establish that our said wine-givers are to serve the sisters of said church with all the lands and rights pertaining to them.  Dated at Buda, on the octave of St. Michael the archangel.

Original letter:

I[sabella] Dei gratia regina Hungarie Petro fideli servienti suo salutem et gratiam.  Cum nos vinidatores nostros de villis Symeg et Sumodor cum omnibus terris et iuribus eorum sororibus ecclesie Beate Virginis de Insula in conditione ipsorum consueta servituros contulerimus, [igitur] fidelitati tue precipiendo mandamus, quatenus assumpto tecum testimonio capituli Budensis vadas et predictos vinidatores nostros cum omnibus terris ipsorum et iuribus ad se pertinentibus st[atuas] sororibus ecclesie memorate servituros.  Datum Bude, in octavis beati Michaelis arcangeli.

Historical context:

The queen orders her man to make sure that the wine-givers she donated to the church of the Virgin on the Island of Rabbits will serve the church. 

Printed source:

Budapest történek okleveles emlékel.  Monumenta diplomatica civitatis Budapest, I (1148-1301), ed. D. Csánky (Budapest:  Gárdonyi, 1936), 146, #132.

Date:

1275, October 6