Adam Meskó

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Adam Meskó (* around 1665 ; † 1734 ) was a Hungarian lawyer , baron and landlord .

Origin and career

The Meskó family came from the lower nobility or official nobility of Upper Hungary , today's Slovakia. Their story becomes tangible at the end of the 17th century with the brothers Adam and Jakob Meskó, who were awarded the Hungarian baron title in July 1721. Adam Meskó, a trained lawyer with a doctorate, worked as an Esterházy official in the Landsee-Lackenbach estate at the end of the 17th century. Where and when he completed his legal training is uncertain; In any case, he was enrolled as an external student at the Jesuit University in Tyrnau in the academic year 1685/86 .

In the further course of his life and by the beginning of the 18th century at the latest, he was to hold various offices within the Hungarian state administration or the Hungarian court chamber, although he always remained in a particularly close relationship with Paul I. Esterházy . In 1701, Meskó Causarum Regalium was Vice-Director in the Royal Hungarian Court Chamber. A year later he was already director of Causarum Regalium. In February 1712, Meskó was among the 28 people who had come to an audience at the Viennese court as representatives of the Hungarian estates. The occasion was the coronation of Charles VI shortly before . to the Roman-German Emperor in Frankfurt am Main. The Hungarian delegation - led by the Primate of the Kingdom of Hungary, the Cardinal Archbishop of Gran Christian August von Sachsen-Zeitz and the Palatine Prince Paul I. Esterházy - not only congratulated the emperor on his coronation and happy return to Vienna, but also invited him also for coronation as King of Hungary. Dr. Adam Meskó ( D. Adamus Mesko ) is presented here with his official designation as Protonotary of the Palatine ( Proto-Notarius Palatinalis ), a high office which he held in those years; he was also Her Majesty's Councilor ( Suae Majestatis Consiliarius ). In 1713 Meskó was a palatal judge and was considered an influential figure in the Hungarian court chamber. In 1723 Baron Adam Meskó was the office director of the Royal Hungarian Court Chamber ( Baro Adamus Mesko, Cancellariae Director ). In 1730 Adam Meskó was made Knight of the Golden Spur (aranysarkantyús vitéz).

Adam Meskó as the landlord

Adam Meskó acquired Nikitsch with the fort Gálosháza (today's Nikitsch Castle) in 1708 by buying it from Prince Esterházy. Nikitsch-Gálosháza was to become the center of Adam Meskó's manorial rule, and he held other possessions in the Ödenburger Komitat , such as Draßburg , a town house in Ödenburg / Sopron and various vineyards in Deutschkreutz and Ödenburg. In order to increase the income from the lordship and not least because of the proximity to Nikitsch, Meskó was interested in expanding his property, including the Croatian mini farm . In 1710, Prince Paul I Esterházy pledged the Croatian Minihof for 8,600 Hungarian guilders to Adam Meskó and his wife Maria Kürtössy - initially for ten years. In fact, the Nikitscher Meskós Croatian mini-farms were supposed to hold a pledge until the second half of the 18th century. Adam Meskó commissioned Jewish wholesalers as suppliers to supply his Nikitsch residence with food, but also with textiles and luxury items - most recently Koppel Deutsch, who was referred to as hoffjud or livrant by baron Mesko .

While Adam had his possessions in Ödenburg County, the goods of his brother Jakob were concentrated in Upper Hungary, today's Slovakia. In 1717 he acquired the place Széplak, today Krásna nad Hornádom, a district of Košice in eastern Slovakia, which is why the family called themselves Meskó von Széplak from then on . In 1744 Jacob's wife Barbara, at that time already widowed, was supposed to buy Enyiczke - today Haniska , around 13 km from Košice - from Prince Lobkowitz . Thus the line was named after Jakob Meskó from 1744 by Széplak and Enyiczke.

family

Adam Meskó was married to Anna Maria Kürtössy, the daughter of Georg Kürtössy and his wife Susanna, geb. Kersnarich. This marriage gave birth to two daughters, Anna Theresia and Eva Maria , who inherited and divided his possessions after his death in 1734. Croatian Minihof and Nikitsch first fell to Anna Theresia, after her death around 1740 - as she had no descendants - together with all other properties after Adam Meskó to the now sole heir Eva Maria. The latter brought this property with their respective husbands into the marriages, and there were a total of four, although it should be mentioned that all four marriages remained childless.

Titles, official titles and ennobles of Adam Meskó

1701: Causarum Regalium Vice-Director

1702: Director of the Causarum Regalium

1712: Protonotary of the Palatine and Her Majesty's Council

1713: palatal judge

1721: Elevation to the Hungarian baron class

1723: Office director

1730: Appointed Knight of the Golden Spur

literature

  • Stefan René Buzanich: The 18th and 19th centuries (with some outlooks into the 20th century) , in: Municipality of Nikitsch, district Croatian Minihof (ed.): Mjenovo. Croatian Minihof (Croatian Minihof 2013, pp. 90-107).
  • Stefan René Buzanich: Small contributions to the history of Croatian mini farm in the 18th and 19th centuries. With a contribution by Dr. Felix Tobler (Vienna 2019, pp. 2–8).

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: 18th and 19th centuries (with some views to the 20th century) . In: Municipality of Nikitsch, district Croatian Minihof (ed.): Mjenovo. Croatian mini farm . Croatian Minihof 2013, p. 90 .
  2. ↑ Felix Tobler: On the history of the so-called Kersnarich'schen Edelhof in Draßburg . In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 35th year. Eisenstadt 1973, p. 89 .
  3. ↑ a b Harald Prickler: Gálosháza . In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 45th year. Eisenstadt 1983, p. 183 ( PDF on ZOBODAT ).
  4. ^ Johann Siebmacher: The coats of arms of the nobility in Hungary (=  J. Siebmacher's great coat of arms book . Volume 33 ). Neustadt / Aisch 1982, p. 416 f .
  5. ^ Felix Tobler: Studies on the local history of Draßburg 1403-1848 (dissertation University of Vienna) . Vienna 1974, p. 38 .
  6. ↑ Attila Zsoldos: Matricula Universitatis Tyrnaviensis 1635-1701 . Budapest 1990, p. 249 .
  7. ↑ Josef Karl Homma: The legal dispute of Pinkafeld and Unterschützen about the privileges as reflected in the Karl VI document. of July 27, 1716 . In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 15th year Eisenstadt 1953, p. 127 .
  8. ↑ Adam Mesko, director causarum regalium: report to the Commission on Cumanians and Jazyges with a chronological outline 1325-1668. Act of 03.01.1702.Signature: AT-OeStA / FHKA SUS NL Beer 01/36 . Austrian State Archives Vienna.
  9. ↑ Johann Ehrenfried Zschackwitz: Life and Deeds of His Imperial and Catholic Majesty Caroli VI. [...] Frankfurt / Main 1723, p. 697-699 .
  10. ^ Stefan Brakensiek: Supplication as a communicative technique of rule in compound monarchies . In: Gabriele Haug-Moritz, Sabine Ullmann (eds.): Early modern supplication practice and monarchical rule from a European perspective (contributions to the legal history of Austria 2/2015) . Vienna 2015, p. 317 .
  11. ↑ Andreas Lehotzky: Stemmatographia Nobilium Familiarum Regni Hungariae [...] Bratislava 1796, p 74 .
  12. ↑ Márton Meskó: A Felső-kubini Meskó család leszármazása és történeti emlékei . Mezö-Berény 1894, p. 18 and 45 .
  13. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: The 18th and 19th centuries (with some views to the 20th century) . In: Municipality of Nikitsch, district Croatian Minihof (ed.): Mjenovo. Croatian mini farm . Croatian Minihof 2013, p. 90 .
  14. ^ Sándor Scheiber: Magyar-Zsidó Oklevéltár. X. Kött. 1150-1766 . Budapest 1967, p. 469-472 .
  15. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: Small contributions to the history of Croatian Minihof in the 18th and 19th centuries. With a contribution by Dr. Felix Tobler . Vienna 2019, p. 2 f .
  16. ↑ Felix Tobler: On the history of the so-called Kersnarich'schen Edelhof in Draßburg . In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 35 Eisenstadt 1973, p. 89 and 93 .
  17. ↑ Stefan René Buzanich: 18th and 19th centuries (with some views to the 20th century) . In: Municipality of Nikitsch, district Croatian Minihof (ed.): Mjenovo. Croatian mini farm . Croatian Minihof 2013, p. 90 .
  18. ↑ Josef Karl Homma: The legal dispute of Pinkafeld and Unterschützen about the privileges as reflected in the Karl VI document. of July 27, 1716 . In: Burgenland homeland sheets . 15 Eisenstadt 1953, p. 127 .
  19. ↑ Adam Mesko, director causarum regalium: report to the Commission on Cumanians and Jazyges with a chronological outline 1325-1668. Act of January 3rd, 1702. Signature: AT-OeStA / FHKA SUS NL Beer 01/36 . Austrian State Archives Vienna.
  20. ↑ Johann Ehrenfried Zschackwitz: Life and Deeds of His Imperial and Catholic Majesty Caroli VI. Frankfurt / Main 1723, p. 698 .
  21. ^ Stefan Brakensiek: Supplication as a communicative technique of rule in compound monarchies . In: Gabriele Haug-Moritz, Sabine Ullmann (Ed.): Early modern supplication practice and monarchical rule from a European perspective (Contributions to the legal history of Austria, Volume 2/2015) . Vienna 2015, p. 317 .
  22. ^ Johann Siebmacher: The coats of arms of the nobility in Hungary (=  J. Siebmacher's great coat of arms book . Volume 33 ). Neustadt / Aisch 1982, p. 416 f .
  23. ↑ Andreas Lehotzky: Stemmatographia Nobilium Familiarum Regni Hungariae [...] Bratislava 1796, p 74 .
  24. ↑ Márton Meskó: A Felső-kubini Meskó család leszármazása és történeti emlékei . Mezö-Berény 1894, p. 18 and 45 .
personal data
SURNAME Meskó, Adam
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian lawyer, baron and landlord
DATE OF BIRTH around 1665
DATE OF DEATH 1734