Drugeth Province

Drugeth Province
Druget-tartomány
Province of the Kingdom of Hungary
1315–1342
CapitalSzepes Castle
Sáros Castle
Vizsoly (court of justice)
Government
Lord 
• 1315–1327
Philip Drugeth
• 1327–1342
William Drugeth
History 
• Established
1315
• Disestablished
1342
Preceded by		 Succeeded by
Aba Province
Kingdom of Hungary (1301–1526)
Today part ofSlovakia, Hungary, Ukraine
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Drugeth Province (Hungarian: Druget-tartomány) is a modern historiographical term of a semi-official autonomous administrative division in the northeastern part of the Kingdom of Hungary (today in Slovakia, Hungary and Ukraine).

The formation of the province began in 1315, during the unification war of King Charles I of Hungary against the rebellious oligarchs. His protege Philip Drugeth gained large-scale domains and held the governance of various counties and castles in the region, also granting palatinal rights, which ensured judicial and administrative privileges for him. The existence of the province was based on the honor (or "office fief") system, introduced by Charles I. After Philip's death in 1327, the province was inherited by his nephew William Drugeth. At the peak of his power, William ruled over nine counties and twenty-three castles in Northeast Hungary, and the Drugeth Province was comparable with the three traditional provinces, the Voivodeship of Transylvania, the Banate of Slavonia and the Banate of Macsó in its size, the number of counties and forts and its institutions. Both Charles I and William Drugeth died in 1342. The new monarch Louis I – under the influence of their opponents – decided to abolish the Drugeth Province, confiscating the overwhelming majority of the wealth of the Drugeth family and also depriving them from political power.

Leadership

Central administration

Lords of the province
Name Period Titles Source
Philip Drugeth 1315–1327 Royal judge (1315–1323)
Palatine (1323–1327)		 [1]
William Drugeth 1327–1342 Royal judge (1327–1333)
Deputy Palatine (1333–1334)
Palatine (1334–1342)		 [1]
Judges of the Court of Vizsoly
Name Period Titles Source
Nicholas Perényi (1st) 1318–1323 "iudex curie" [1]
John 1323 "iudex curie" [1]
Nicholas Perényi (2nd) 1323–1334 "viceiudex" [1]
The Court of Vizsoly did not function (1334–1339)
Izsép Ruszkai 1339–1341 "viceiudex" [1]
The Court of Vizsoly ceased to exist (1341–1342)
Treasurers of the province
Name Period Notes Source
Stephen "the Page" 1325–1326 from the gens (clan) Zoárd;
Latin: Stephanus dictus Oproud [...], Hungarian: "Apród" István		 [1]
Gery "the Italian" 1330 Latin: Gery Gallicus, Hungarian: "Olasz" Gery [1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g h Zsoldos 2017, p. 236.

Sources

  • Engel, Pál (1988). "Az ország újraegyesítése. I. Károly küzdelmei az oligarchák ellen (1310–1323) [Reunification of the Realm. The Struggles of Charles I Against the Oligarchs (1310–1323)]". Századok (in Hungarian). 122 (1–2). Magyar Történelmi Társulat: 89–146. ISSN 0039-8098.
  • Engel, Pál (1996). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I. [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I] (in Hungarian). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 963-8312-44-0.
  • Engel, Pál (1998). A nemesi társadalom a középkori Ung megyében [The Noble Society in Medieval Ung County] (in Hungarian). Társadalom- és művelődéstörténeti tanulmányok 25., MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 963-8312-59-9.
  • Hardi, Đura (2012). Drugeti. Povest o usponu i padu porodice pratilaca Anžujskih kraljeva [Drugeths. The History of the Rise and Decline of the Escorts of Angevin Kings] (in Serbo-Croatian (Latin script)). Faculty of Philosophy, University of Novi Sad. ISBN 978-86-6065-108-4.
  • Zsoldos, Attila (2017). A Druget-tartomány története 1315–1342 [The History of the Druget Province 1315–1342] (in Hungarian). MTA Bölcsészettudományi Kutatóközpont Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 978-963-4160-63-2.