Tentaţia falsului diplomatic. Cazul lui Ştefan de Sânger, notarul conventului benedictin de la Cluj-Mănăştur
The temptation of diplomatic forgery. The case of Stephan of Sânger, notary of the Cluj-Mănăştur Benedictine Convent

Summary/Abstract: Stephan of Sânger, lay notary of the Cluj-Mănăştur convent between 1370-1383, took part, driven for surely by abbot Otto (1360-1383), in probably the largest institutional initiative of documentary forgery in Late Medieval Transylvania, in order to expand the estates of this very important and influent Benedictine monastery in the region. At the same time with this illegal activity, taking the model of his superior, it seems that Stephan developed his own immoral strategy, in order to increase the wealth and inheritance of his wife Elisabeth, the noble daughter of Kalach of Sânmărtin, not without forging documents. Therefore, the purpose of this approach is to follow the most detailed trail of this strategy, to record its mechanism and to capture its consequences, even after the tragic and violent death of Stephan. The paper ends with an appendix in which the most important documentary pieces of the subject are recovered.

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