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Re: What does it mean to be a "Royal Village"

kcarnley — Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:06 pm

Author: kcarnley

Posted: Thu Jun 13, 2013 9:06 pm

I was reading a history about Buczacz on jewishgen.org tonight. It mentions "Buczacz was not a royal town, but belonged to the landed nobility." Then it goes on to name the various families that owned it. I would assume this to mean a royal city was not under the governance of a noble family but fell directly under the jurisdiction of the king. Just a guess.

Re: What does it mean to be a "Royal Village"

gerre — Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:33 pm

Author: gerre

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 2:33 pm

No taxes for twenty years, that sounds good to me! Thanks for your information. I know my grandfather and his family lived on the land in 1873, I wonder if I can find out how far back they were there.

Re: What does it mean to be a "Royal Village"

Elzbieta Porteneuve — Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:06 am

Author: Elzbieta Porteneuve

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 10:06 am

Hi,

Searching by myself I found Polish wiki http://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miasto_kr%C3%B3lewskie where it states that a village or city established on the land belonging to a king was called krolewski, royal.

Searching with English "royal villages" there is a long list, such as this one http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nowotaniec "The start of settlement that became Nowotaniec began as a royal village established in 1366 based on the Privilege of Casimir III the Great. The village was founded on the principles of the Magdeburg Rights, and its inhabitants were exempted from all taxes towards the king for a period of twenty years. "

Any historian to help?

Best,
Elzbieta

What does it mean to be a "Royal Village"

gerre — Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:40 am

Author: gerre

Posted: Tue Jun 11, 2013 9:40 am

I came across this article and was wondering what it meant to be a Royal Village. Were there special privileges? It is dated 1895.
Zal~e~z~e
With Markuszka, a village, in the district of Jaslo, on the left bank of the Wisloka river, 29 kilometers north of the town of Osiek, elevation 273 meters above the sea level. The area is hilly, the soil is heavy, loamy. It borders to the west with Wola Debowiecka, to the south with Zawadka, to the north with Debowiec. Markuszka is situated south of Zalese and consists of 13 houses. The whole village has 96 houses and 550 inhabitants (290 man and 260 women), all Roman Catholics (with the exception of 8 Jews). The landed property (of Seweryn Stawiarski) has 116 morg [tr. note: 1 morg = 1.4 acre] of ploughland; the entire property has 609 morg. Nothing is known about the foundation of the village and the parish, but they existed as early as 1326. Dlugosz [tr. note: a famous historian, 1415-80] refers to the village as Zalanze, Zalanszye and Zalanzie propo Osiek; it was a royal village. The present wooden church was built in 1760 and modified in 1883. Markuszka and Wola Debowiecka are part of the parish (diocese of Przemysl, decanate of Jaslo). In 1581 (A. Pawinski, Malopolska), the entire parish was owned by Jerzy Mniszek; Zalese included 13 serf half-fiefs, 1 copyholder, 1 tenant with livestock, 1 tenant without livestock and 2 perches of cleared ploughland.
Source: Slownik Geograficzny Krolestwa Polskiego - Warsaw 1895