Register Login
Flaga wersji językowej  English Flaga wersji językowej  Język Polski
Published: 2014-12-31
Vol. 6 (2014)

Rotations in the Selected Offices at the Court of Elizabeth of Austria (1454—1505)

Tomasz Rombek
Section: Artykuły
https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2014.10.15

Abstract

The purpose of the article is to illustrate a phenomenon of rotation in most important offices at the court of Elizabeth of Austria, that is chief stewards and royal chefs. The sovereign had at least eight chief stewards and six royal chefs. The office of the chief steward falls into two stages; the first one (1454—1477) is described as being stable and permanent, which favored the formation of the court of the “foreign” queen of Poland (the only chief steward Mikołaj of Borzyszowice), whereas the second stage (1477—1500/1505) was a time of dynamic changes occurring every few years (seven chief stewards). Such rotation in this office probably reflected changes in the ruling elite in the second half of the 15th century. Changes in the office of the royal chef happened likewise, namely the working time was short and a change occurred relatively early. As in the case of chief stewards, it might have been due to changes that took place within the structure of the political elite, or simply because of the dignitary’s retirement and being rewarded with another office (starosty).

Keywords:

court administration , royal steward , starosta

Download files

Citation rules

Rombek, T. (2014). Rotations in the Selected Offices at the Court of Elizabeth of Austria (1454—1505). Średniowiecze Polskie I Powszechne, 6, 304–318. https://doi.org/10.31261/SPiP.2014.10.15

Cited by / Share

Crossref
Scopus
Google Scholar
Europe PMC

Licence

Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.


The Copyright Owners of the submitted texts grant the Reader the right to use the pdf documents under the provisions of the Creative Commons 4.0 International License: Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA). The user can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose.

1. License

The University of Silesia Press provides immediate open access to journal’s content under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY-SA 4.0 license.

2. Author’s Warranties

The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.

If the article contains illustrative material (drawings, photos, graphs, maps), the author declares that the said works are of his authorship, they do not infringe the rights of the third party (including personal rights, i.a. the authorization to reproduce physical likeness) and the author holds exclusive proprietary copyrights. The author publishes the above works as part of the article under the licence "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International".

ATTENTION! When the legal situation of the illustrative material has not been determined and the necessary consent has not been granted by the proprietary copyrights holders, the submitted material will not be accepted for editorial process. At the same time the author takes full responsibility for providing false data (this also regards covering the costs incurred by the University of Silesia Press and financial claims of the third party).

3. User Rights

Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, the users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the article for any purpose, provided they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.

4. Co-Authorship

If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.

I hereby declare that in the event of withdrawal of the text from the publishing process or submitting it to another publisher without agreement from the editorial office, I agree to cover all costs incurred by the University of Silesia in connection with my application.

SPP 2014 cover

Vol. 6 (2014)
Published: 2014-12-31

ISSN: 2080-492X
eISSN: 2353-9720
Publisher
Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Śląskiego | University of Silesia Press
Licence CC Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Submit
This website uses cookies for proper operation, in order to use the portal fully you must accept cookies.