At the turn of the 14th and 15th century, documents mention desolate castle Litava. The castle belonged to nobles from Kaza (present-day Sajókaza), afterwards occupied by Czech soldiers. In 1461, king Matthias Corvinus conquered the castle Litava, already called Čabraď. He gave the castle to Damian Horvát as a donation and Damian has renovated and extended castle dominion. Around 1503, the Horvát family sold the castle with dominion to Thomas Bakócz. He has been extending the dominion as well, then he gave it to his relatives – the Erdődy family. At the end of the Middle Ages, a part of the Čabraď dominion was the castle of the same name, farm around the castle, wasteland or solitary farm Čabraď (present-day farm Konské), village Čabradský Vrbovok, shares in village Medovarce, village Devičie, Teplica (present-day farm Tepličky near Hontianske Nemce), Krnišov, Žibritov, shares in village Štefultov, villages Ilija, Svätý Anton, Prenčov (both villages with extincted farms Pakhaus, Dorfel and Štálov), Beluj and Lehôtka (present-day Sitnianska Lehôtka). In the south-eastern part of Hont County are there Opava, Čelovce, shares in village Ďurkovce, farm Neklinec, village Horné Nekyje (at present-day, both are part of village Vinica) and shares in village Sečianky. Other property lied in the middle part of the Hont County. These were shares in villages Rykynčice, Plášťovce and Slatina. In the west of Hont, share in village Devičany and southward located villages Veľký Pesek, Trhyňa (at present-day, both are part of village Sikenica) and Šalov belonged there. According to territorial distribution, they created several property units. The most stable of them lied in the north of the Hont County, near the village Svätý Anton. Other units bought southward in the basin Ipeľ and Hron had the form of property shares. Later, they have come under proprietary changes in various extent.
In 1524 brothers John, George and Stephen divided the manor house (curia nobilitaris) of their father in the village Lukavica into three parts. Only the first of the brothers remained living in Lukavica and was still a lower-ranking member of the nobility. The division of the manor describes the interior spaces of the house: the black room, the old kitchen, the room behind the kitchen, the hall and the room with lighting. The house also had a cellar. In the courtyard there was a piggery, stables, barn and a chicken coop. The entrance consisted of a gate with a small tower. Another black room, a brewery, a pond and a mill belonged to the nobleman's house. The division is exceptionally detailed and it is a unique source in the region of the Zvolen County. The charter has been preserved in a copy from the middle of the 16th century. The manor and its accessories became the subject of disputes and repeated divisions over the following generations. Female members of the family, in some cases married to non-nobles, played an important role in these disputes. The manor house in Lukavica still existed at the end of the 17th century after the change of owners. It is possible that it was subsequently converted into a farmstead, which still exists to the north of the village.
In the seat of the Austrian State Archives in Vienna, a simple transcription of medieval charters had been preserved in the material from 1543 in a fund traditionally called Hungarica. The series of charters brings new knowledge about the legal, economic and social status of the subjects of the royal estate in Zvolen. To our knowledge, the charters had not yet been known. The Hungarian king Louis I. of Anjou issued the oldest one in 1360. He had exempted gamekeepers from the villages of Badín, Hájniky and Rybáre (part of the village of Sliač nowadays) from paying the lucrum camerae tax. In 1410, king Sigismund of Luxembourg issued another charter at the request of subjects from the villages of Badín, Veľká Lúka, Rybáre, Hájniky, Kováčová, Tŕnie and Trebuľa (seclusion near the village of Kováčová). The king had confirmed their freedoms they had been following during the reign of his predecessor Louis I. Moreover, the document had also specified how much the subjects should pay in kind. A true analogy is another charter of king Sigismund, issued in 1410 for the subjects of the adjacent castle Vígľaš. At the request of the specifically named subjects of the Zvolen castle, both charters from the years 1360 and 1410 were confirmed in 1457 by king Ladislaus the Posthumous and subsequently in 1465 by king Matthias Corvinus. Another charters from the years 1457 and 1465 created a parallel to them, addressed by kings to the subjects as freemen from the villages of Hájniky and Rybáre. The last document is a transcription (transumpt) of the charter of Matthias Corvinus. The transcription was issued in 1543 at the request of subjects from the monastery in Hronský Beňadik. All charters stated above are published unabridged and provide suggestions for further research.
While the expeditions of prince Casimir and later prince John I Albert took place in different political situations, they share some similarities. Both military campaigns had the same background in the regions of north-eastern Hungary. The study focuses on the power support of two members of the Jagiellonian dynasty in Hungary. Prince Casimir’s expedition of 1471–1472 and Prince John I Albert’s expedition of 1490–1492 were characterised by continuous Hungarian support. Due to intensive contacts in the borderlands, the Polish party was supported by members of several generations of the magnate families, as well as local landowners. The Jagiellonians were mainly supported by the Rozgonyi and Perényi families in the regions of Šariš and Zemplín. The reasons for this multi-generational support can be attributed to the proximity of the magnates and their estates to Poland, and in the personal, economic and cultural ties in the borderlands. It is significant that, despite the failure of the expeditions, the rebellious magnate families were not stripped of their status, unlike lower-ranking nobles.
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