A letter of confirmation

Translated letter:

Elizabeth by the grace of God queen of Hungary to all the faithful of Christ who will look at the present letters greetings in the bestower of salvation to all.  We wish to bring to the notice of all present and future by the content of these that when the rule of the province of Szepes fell into our hands with the grace and favor of the lord king Ladislaus our dearest son  and we at the request of that lord king had all the lands of that province of Szepes measured and walked through by means of Dominic master of our tavarnics [chamberlains], so that we might arrange to restore the lands that had been unduly alienated with full right according to a proper mode, it was made clear to us through that master Dominic that he found that land to four ploughings on the east next to the land of the town Kurtueles (Kürtvéles) was [in the hands of]  Zalauk, Wyth and Rachlou sons of the jobbagyok [official] of Szepes, which land because it had been possessed by those Zalauk, Wyth and Rachlou from long ago always peacefully and without opposition of anyone as their hereditary possession with their predecessors, we gave and donated it with all its uses and appurtenances to those Zalauk, Wyth and Rachlou and their heirs and successors of their heirs; rather we left what had long been possessed to them to be possessed perpetually and peacefully, from which land in the custom of other sons of jobbagyok of Szepes they are held to serve the lord king, and us and our successors.  Of which land the shared boundaries are on the east of the people of the town of Kurtueles (Kürtvéles) and southward; on the west boundary is shared with the land of Kunch of Myloy and also in the west shared with the land of John and Thobye and the land of Zema; on the north it is shared with the land of little Arnold.  In memory and perpetual stability of which thing we have granted the present letters to said Zalauk, Wyth and Rachlou, strengthened by the protection of our double seal.  Dated by the hand of master Geregory, provost of Sow, our faithful chancellor of our court in the 1280th year of the Lord.

Original letter:

Elysabeth Dei gratia regina Hungarie omnibus Christi fidelibus presentes litteras inspecturis salutem in salutis omnium largitore. Ad universorum presentium futurorumque notitiam harum serie volumus pervenire, quod cum de gratia et favore domini regis Ladyzlai filii nostri karissimi dominium provincie Scypus ad nostras manus fuisset devolutum et nos ad petitionem eiusdem domini regis universas terras in ipsa provincia Scypus mediante Dominico magistro tarnicorum [!] nostrorum mensurari et reambulari fecissemus, ut perinde terras indebite alienatas restaurare et iuxta modum debitum ordinare possemus pleno iure, constitit nobis per eundem magistrum Dominicum, quod apud Zalauk, Wytk et Rachlou filios iobagionum de Scypus terram ad quatuor aratra a parte orientis iuxta terram ville Kurtuelus existentem invenisset, quam quidem terram, quia iidem Zalauk, Wytk et Rachlov ab antiquo tempore pacifice semper inquietatione cuiuslibet non obstante sicut possessionem eorum hereditariam cum suis predecessoribus possederunt, cum suis utilitatibus et pertinentiis universis eisdem Zalauk, Wytk et Rachlou ac eorum heredibus, heredumque suorum successoribus dedimus et donavimus, ymo iamdudum possessam ipsis reliquimus perpetuo et pacifice possidendam, de qua quidem terra more aliorum filiorum iobagionum de Scypus domino regi, nobis et successoribus nostris servire teneantur. Cuius terre commetanei sunt a parte orientis populi de villa Kurtueles et tendit versus meridiem, a parte vero occidentis commetatur terre Kunch de Myloy et ex eadem parte occidentis commetatur etiam terre Johannis et Thobye et terre Zeme, a parte autem septemtrionali commetatur terre parvi Arnoldi. In cuius rei memoriam firmitatemque perpetuam presentes prefatis Zalauk, Wytk et Rachlov concessimus litteras duplicis sigilli nostri munimine roboratas. Datum per manus magistri Gregorii prepositi de Sow, aule nostre cancellarii fidelis nostri anno Domini Mo Co LXXXo .

Historical context:

This charter records one result of the investigation of property rights in Szepes instigated by the queen at the request of her son the king, after the destructions caused by the rebellion of Roland.  Cf . Epistolae 26262.html, 1279, 26264.html, 1279, 26263.html, 1279, and 26312.html, 1279.

Printed source:

Az Árpád-házi hercegek, hercegnök és a királnék okleveleinek kritikai jegyzéke, Regesta ducum, ducissarum stirpis Arpadiana, ed. E. Szentpétery, A. Zsoldos (Budapest 2008) 83-84, #121.

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