Perpetual count

A perpetual count (Hungarian: örökös főispán, Latin: supremus et perpetuus comes)^[1] was a head or an ispán of a county in the Kingdom of Hungary (“Lord Lieutenant”) whose office was either hereditary or attached to the dignity of a prelate or of a great officer of the realm. The earliest examples of a perpetual ispánate are from the 12th century, but the institution flourished between the 15th and 18th centuries. Although all administrative functions of the office were abolished in 1870, the title itself was preserved until the general abolition of noble titles in Hungary in 1946.

History

List of perpetual ispánates

Ex officio ispánates

Hereditary ispánates

Footnotes

^ Nemes 1989, p. 81.
^ a b c d e f g h i j k Fallenbüchl 1994, p. 9.
^ Zsoldos 2011, p. 149.
^ Engel 1996, p. 126.
^ Engel 1996, p. 132.
^ Engel 1996, p. 159.
^ a b Engel 1996, p. 163.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 11., 130.
^ Engel 1996, p. 231.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 99.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 61.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 66.
^ Engel 2001, p. 293.
^ Pannon Reneszánsz : A Hunyadiak és a Jagelló-kor (1437–1526). Encyclopaedia Humana Hungarica. Vol. 4. Retrieved 20 April 2018.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 82.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 83.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 84.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 11., 129-130.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 92-93.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 93-94.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 96.
^ Engel 2001, p. 311.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, p. 99.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 9-10., 99.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 9., 99.
^ Engel 2001, p. 312.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 103.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 9., 104.
^ a b Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 11., 132.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, p. 132.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 107-108.
^ Fallenbüchl 1994, pp. 10., 111.

References

(in Hungarian) Engel, Pál (1996). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1301–1457, I. ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1301–1457, Volume I"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. Budapest. ISBN 963-8312-44-0.
Engel, Pál (2001). The Realm of St Stephen: A History of Medieval Hungary, 895-1526. I.B. Tauris Publishers. ISBN 1-86064-061-3.
(in Hungarian and German) Fallenbüchl, Zoltán (1994). Magyarország főispánjai, 1526–1848 ("Lord-Lieutenants of Counties in Hungary, 1526–1848"). Argumentum Kiadó. ISBN 963-7719-81-4.
(in Hungarian) Nemes, Lajos (1989). Entry örökös főispán in: Bán, Péter; Magyar történelmi fogalomtár, I. kötet: L–Zs [=Thesaurus of Terms of Hungarian History, Volume I: L–Zs]. Gondolat. ISBN 963-282-204-8.
Rady, Martyn (2000). Nobility, Land and Service in Medieval Hungary. Palgrave (in association with School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London). ISBN 0-333-80085-0.
Sedlar, Jean W. (1994). East Central Europe in the Middle Ages, 1000–1500. University of Washington Press. ISBN 0-295-97290-4.
(in Hungarian) Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 ("Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301"). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. Budapest. ISBN 978-963-9627-38-3.