A renewal of a grant

Translated letter:

We E[lizabeth] by the grace of God queen of Hungary to all the faithful of Christ who will contemplate the present writing, eternal greetings/salvation in the lord.  Since the unrolling/turning of years and times is frequent, therefore prudent reason finds that what affairs might destroy, the inscription of letters should preserve as witness.  Therefore we wish to bring to the notice of all present and future by the content of these, that when the loyalties and merits of the services of count/ispán Cosmas, son of Cosmas of Zsámbok were considered, Stephen, illustrious king of Hungary of happy memory our dearest father-in-law, and lady queen Elizabethe our beloved mother-in-law conferred on him a certain reginal land called Granna beside the Hernád river to be possessed in perpetuity, and finally that count Cosmas gave praiseworthy services to lord Ladislaus illustrious king of Hungary our consort and to us at a tender age in various military operations, submitting himself to the various chances of fortune.  We do not wish to pass over with a deaf ear his loyalties and services so obviously shown, as we ought to measure the merits of individuals from the duty of our office, in consequence we left, allowed, gave, donated, conferred and handed over that land Granna with all its uses and appurtenances, namely the arable land called Granna with the Hernád river, meadow, brushwood, woods, and all other circumstances pertinent to it to said count Cosmas and his heirs and successors of those heirs, to be possessed peacefully and irrevocably and according to [what] he had, held, and possessed  by grant of said lord king Stephen and his lady queen consort, with that fullness of right and in those ancient boundaries, terms, and limits in which they were possessed and limited on that land by our people.  In perpetual stability of which thing, lest in the course of time this grant of ours should be invalidated by someone to any extent and withdrawn, we have granted the present letters strengthened by the protection of our double seal.  Dated by the hand of master Ladislaus provost of Vác, faithful chancellor of our court in the 1278th year of the Lord, in the town of Sáros, on the feast of the apostles Simon and Jude.

Original letter:

[E]lisabeth Dei gratia regina Hungarie omnibus Christi fidelibus presens scriptum intuentibus salutem in domino sempiternam. Quoniam annorum et temporum frequens est volutio, ideo provida invenit ratio, ut quod perempnare debeat negocia, litterarum testimonio servaret inscriptio. Proinde ad universorum tam presentium, quam futurorum notitiam harum serie volumus pervenire, quod cum consideratis fidelitatibus et servitiorum meritis comitis Cosme filii Cosme de Sambuk dominus Stephanus illustris rex Hungarie felicis recordationis socer noster karissimus et domina Elisabeth regina socrus nostra predilecta quandam terram reginalem Granna vocatam existentem iuxta fluvium Hernad eidem contulisset [!] perpetuo possidendam, et demum idem comes Cosmas domino Ladizlao inclito rege Hungarie consorte nostro et nobis in etate tenera constitutis in diversis expeditionibus regni nostri laudabiles impendisset famulatus variis se fortune casibus submittendo et nos ipsius fidelitates ac servitia tam evidenter exhibita non velimus pertransire surda aure, tum ex debito officii nostri metiri debeamus merita singulorum, ipsam terram Granna cum omnibus utilitatibus et pertinentiis suis, terra scilicet arabili, fluviis Hernad et Granna vocatis, prato, virgulto, silva et aliis circumstantiis universis spectantibus ad eandem prefato comiti Cosme et suis heredibus heredumque suorum successoribus consequenter reliquimus, permisimus, dedimus, donavimus, contulimus et tradidimus iure perpetuo pacifice et inrevocabiliter possidendam secundumque per collationem predicti domini regis Stephani et domine regine consortis eiusdem habuit, tenuit et possedit eo etiam iure plenitudine ac in eisdem metis, terminis et limitibus antiquis, in quibus per populos nostros super ipsa terra existentes est limitata ac possessa. In cuius rei perpetuam firmitatem, ut ne processu temporum per quempiam huiusmodi nostra collatio seu donatio valeat in irritum aliquatenus retractari, presentes concessimus litteras duplicis sigilli nostri munimine roboratas. Datum per manus magistri Ladizlay prepositi Waciensis, aule nostre cancellarii fidelis nostri anno Domini millesimo ducentesimo septuagesimo octavo, in villa Sarus, in festo Symonis et Jude apostolorum.

Historical context:

The queen grants anew a reginal land earlier bestowed on a faithful retainer by her mother- and father-in-law.  

Printed source:

Az Árpád-házi hercegek, hercegnök és a királnék okleveleinek kritikai jegyzéke, Regesta ducum, ducissarum stirpis Arpadianae necnon reginarum Hungariae critico-diplomatica, E. Szentpétery, A. Zsoldos (Budapest, 2008), 112-13, #174.

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