ТРИ ИСПРАВЕ И ПЕЧАТ ДМИТРА КРАЉЕВИЋА
THREE DOCUMENTS AND A SEAL OF DMITAR KRALJEVIĆ

Summary/Abstract: The paper represents a critical edition with photographs, description, translation into Serbian and diplomatic analysis of three Latin documents issued in Hungary in 1404 and 1405 by Dmitar (Demetrius) Kraljević, the youngest son of Serbian King Vukašin (1365–1371). After his father's death in the Battle of the Maritsa River (1371) Dmitar stayed at his family's territory in western Macedonia, but he crossed over to Hungary with his brother Andrijaš in 1394. Entering the service of King Sigismund of Luxembourg, Dmitar performed the duties of the count of Zaránd and the castellan of Világosvár for several years and in this capacity, he issued the mentioned documents. Two of these documents, regarding a property dispute between the noblemen Ladislaus Syke of Pankota and Alexis of Őstelek, were issued on September 1 and 15, 1404 in Szineke (Sintea Mică) in Zaránd County. These two acts have been known for more than a century since they were published in the collection of documents on the Hungarian-Serbian relations in the Middle Ages by Lajos Thallóczy and Аntal Áldásy (1907). The third document, which Dmitar Kraljević issued in Buda on March 1, 1405, regarding the regulation of the dispute over а mill and mill canals on the Fehér-Körös (Crişul Alb) river between the aforementioned Ladislaus of Pankota and Stephen Ördög of Csama, was not known or published until now. The special value of this document is that it has a well-preserved wax seal of Dmitar Kraljević with a heraldic representation and a Cyrillic inscription in the Serbian language (“This is the seal of Dmitar Kraljević”), which was also unknown until now. The other two documents also bore the same seal, but they were too damaged to be of any use. On the basis of the seal, it can be concluded that Dmitar had his share in the government of the Mrnjavčević state in western Macedonia. The seal inscription also testifies that the anthroponym Kraljević, recorded in folk tradition concerning Dmitar's brother King Marko (1371–1395), was their surname in the true sense of the word. All three documents are kept in the Erdödy family archive, which is deposited in the Austrian State Archives in Vienna (Österreichische Staatsarchiv, Wien. Haus-, Hof- und Staatsarchiv, Familienarchiv Erdödy).

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