Pálosfalvi, Tamás: The Noble Elite in the County of Körös (Križevci) 1400–1526

At the origins of the present book lay a research which was simply aimed at shedding some light upon the social background of the persons who functioned as vicebans in the late medieval regnum Sclavonie. It soon became evident, however, that in terms of landed wealth the great majority of them were mostly, or exclusively based in the county of Körös (in Croatian Križevci). The reasons of this phenomenon will be explored later on. Yet it also became clear that such an analysis could not be complete without uncovering the whole social network which linked these families to the rest of the nobility within and without Slavonia in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries. Hence my decision to include into the research the whole noble “élite” of the county of Körös, in the widest possible sense of the word.