Dioba posjeda i plemiæki rod: primjeri iz Slavonije
Division of property and noble kindred: examples from Slavonia

Summary/Abstract: In the life of the nobility, the estates, which nobles held, played an exceptional role. These estates were material base of their survival and power, and noble status of a person or family/kindred was tightly linked to them. Because of that the ways in which the estates were acquired or inherited, the ways they were managed, also had such exceptional importance. This article deals with one of the questions connected to the proprietary relations, that is with the question of the division of the estates among members of noble kindreds and families. Legal norms related to the division of estates have been discussed and particular examples of the division of the estates among the members of noble kindreds of the Sava and Drava interamnium have been given. The analysis shows that, even though the division sometimes occurred between fathers and sons, the more frequent was the division occurring only after father’s death, and that those who more frequently conducted division were cousins than brothers. The article also points to the changes in the ways in which the estates were divided which occurred through time, that is to the fact that in the earlier period the estates, if there were more of them, were divided in the way that one whole estate was given to a kindred branch and another to the another, while from the middle of the fourteenth century each branch of a kindred received a part of each estate. The possible reasons for such changes and their connection to the changes in the structure of the kindreds have been also discussed.

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