Ľupčiansky hrad v polovici 16. storočia vo svetle najstaršieho zachovaného inventára

MIROSLAV LACKO
Friedrich-Christian-Lesser-Kolleg für Ostmitteleuropa, Friedrich-Schiller-Universität, Jena, Nemecko

Ľupča Castle in the Mid-Sixteenth Century in the Light of Oldest Preserved Inventory

Abstract: From 1527, the Ľupča Castle was possessed by Mary of Austria (1505 – 1558), the dowager-queen of Hungary that kept the Lower Hungarian minting chamber in Kremnica with several estates and castles in this area (present-day Central Slovakia) after the death of her husband King Louis II (1506 – 1526) during the battle of Mohács. As Maria had become governor of the Habsburg Netherlands in 1531, her brother, the new Hungarian King Ferdinand I (1503 – 1564), began to aim at an assumption of her Lower Hungarian property to the royal government, because this mining area represented a very important source of finance. After long-term efforts, the contract about a financial compensation between the King Ferdinand I and his sister Mary was made on 7 March 1548 in Augsburg and by this contract, Mary renounced her claim for the Lower Hungarian minting chamber, estates and castles Ľupča, Vígľaš, and Dobrá Niva in favour of Ferdinand I. Until the end of August 1548, these estates and castles were assumed to the royal ownership. Thereat, the oldest known inventory of the Ľupča Castle was elaborated by the royal commissioners on 30 August 1548 and its exact transcription is published in the appendix of this study for the first time.

Keywords: Ľupča, castle, inventory, material culture, Hungary, Central Slovakia, Habsburg policy.