Familiile nobiliare Maciovan şi Birta în secolele XV–XVII
The nobiliary families of Maciovan and Birta in the 15th–17th centuries

Summary/Abstract: From 1454 and 1535, respectively, the families of Maciovan and Birta are noted down in some papers. The preserved documents allow us to partially reconstitute their genealogical relation and offer data on their onomastics, relationship, estate, and the functions they got in time. The first family consists in 9 known members (6 men and 3 women), and for the second one, there are data on 13 members (9 men and 4 ladies). A matrimonial alliance between the two families was concluded at the middle of the 16th century. Both of them lived and integrated into a prevalent Romanian environment. The nobiliary status, confirmed even by the first notings, was carried by all the ones belonging to those families. Shares of villages, houses, and mills in Caransebeş city and district formed their real estate. Village of Maciova was the main of their properties used as a patronimyc or a nobiliary particle of the Birtas. Their properties had the chance of not being occupied by the Ottomans in 1552. In change, many inside patrimonial conflicts and agreements or between the families’ members and other nobiliary families marked their life. Their presence in the nobles assembly in Caransebeş district and in the Council of the omonimous city confirme their nobiliary ascension. Given the absence of male descendants, the two families disapeared after 1600.

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