Wesselényi Miklós. Egy ítélőmester életútja a 16. század végi Erdélyben
Miklós Wesselényi. The Carrier of a Protonotary in the 16th Century Transylvania

Summary/Abstract: The study focuses on the career of Miklós Wesselényi, one of the so-called protonotaries (ítélőmesterek) of the Principality of Transylvania between 1567 and 1584. The Wesselényi family originated from Nógrád county (nowadays Hungary). Around 1551, before the siege of Eger (1552), Miklós and his brothers have left the region and settled in different parts of the former Hungarian Kingdom. Miklós arrived to Transylvania probably at the beginning of the 1550’s. Supposedly he worked as a scribe at the Chancellery of the Transylvanian protonotar Gáspár Bódi. The paper presents all the information available in the written sources concerning the activity of Wesselényi, first as a lawyer (procurator), than as director causarum and at the end of his career as a protonotarius. We emphasized more on his activity as a protonotary and tried to describe his work at the sedria of the princes, or during his journeys as a charter issuer.

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