The Southeast of Gari？ County in the 13th and 14th Century

Sa？etak This paper discusses the manors that were situated in the territory surrounded by today’s towns of Gare？nica, Di？nik, Velika Br？ljanica and Gojlo, particularly on the basis of reambulations from 1256 and of other written sources. Among other possessions there were the manors of Saint John of the Berivoj family, Di？nik of the Ruh family and Desnica of the Kapitani？ family. Various hypotheses can be found in literature as to where these places were located; hence, this paper is a new contribution to the precise location of elements of the cultural scenery in the area mentioned. The paper is divided into five chapters. In the first four chapters the manors of Gare？nica, Di？nik, Desnica and Gojlo are discussed on the basis of written sources; in accordance with the attached maps a reconstruction of the borders of the manors has been proposed. On the borders of some of the manors, Juraj, the son of Berivoj, was mentioned as a neighbour whose manor has not been located with certainty to date. In this paper the more precise location of this manor is associated with the place named Kapelica near Gare？nica. The manor of the Berivoj family adjoined the manor of Descha, which had in the second half of the 13th century been acquired by Count Ruh, and it can be correlated with the area of today’s Di？nik. In the western part of the Berivoj and Ruh manors there were two estates named Desnica, located on today’s little Br？ljanica River, in the territory of today’s villages of Veliko Vukovje and Velika Br？ljanica. In the eastern part of all the places mentioned there was the manor of Gojlo, owned by the Teteny (de Pukur) family. The Berivoj and Ruh families retained possession of their manors in Kapelica and Di？nik during the 14th century, whereas the manor of Desnica fell into the hands of the Kapitani？ (Kapitanfy) family. However, there is no obvious reference to this family from the 14th century in connection with the holders of the Desnica manors during the 13th century. This issue is referred to in chapter five. The conclusion emphasizes a clear distinction between the manors of Di？nik and Desnica since in previous literature these two names were used as equivalents