High dignity and property in the 16th–17th centuries in the Banat “the nobles Gârleșteanu of Rudăria’s wealth”
High dignity and property in the 16th–17th centuries in the Banat “the nobles Gârleșteanu of Rudăria’s wealth”

Summary/Abstract: The Gârleștenis of Rudăria made a special figure among the Romanian noble families in the medieval and pre-modern Banat due to their almost permanent connection to the local centers of power. During one century and a half, from the end of the 15th century up to 1658, 7 members of the family hold some of the highest dignities in the Banat of Severin, and the Banat of Caransebeș and Lugoj after: bans of Severin, vice-counts/ castellans in the county of Severin, and prime-judges (mayors) in Caransebeș. It is but an interesting model of social ascension and perpetuation of the political influence based both on a series of remarkable personalities in the family, and the weal they inherited or provided by exerting their functions in the course of time. The present study follows the history of the family during the Principality of Transylvania age, by dwelling on the aspects of male and female right of succession, legacies or transactions the members of that family operated, or the inherent litigates before the courts of that time. The study comes as a necessary completion of my previous studies on that so influent family in the Banat, in the days of yore.

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