Drugeth Province ( hu, Druget-tartomány) is a modern historiographical term of a semi-official autonomous administrative division in the northeastern part of the

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(today in

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and

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). The formation of the province began in 1315, during the unification war of King

Charles I of Hungary Charles I, also known as Charles Robert ( hu, Károly Róbert; hr, Karlo Robert; sk, Karol Róbert; 128816 July 1342) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1308 to his death. He was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and the only son of ...

against the rebellious oligarchs. His protege

Philip Drugeth Philip Drugeth (also Druget, hu, Druget Fülöp, sk, Filip Druget, uk, Філіпп Другет; ''c''. 1288 – June or July 1327) was a Neapolitan knight of French origin, who accompanied the twelve-year-old pretender Charles of Anjou to Hu ...

gained large-scale domains and held the governance of various counties and castles in the region, also granting palatinal rights, which ensured judicial and administrative privileges for him. The existence of the province was based on the ''

honor Honour (British English) or honor (American English; see spelling differences) is the idea of a bond between an individual and a society as a quality of a person that is both of social teaching and of personal ethos, that manifests itself as a ...

'' (or "office fief") system, introduced by Charles I. After Philip's death in 1327, the province was inherited by his nephew

William Drugeth William Drugeth (also Druget, hu, Druget Vilmos, sk, Viliam Druget, uk, Вілмош Другет; 1300s – September 1342) was a distinguished Neapolitan-born Hungarian baron and military leader in the first half of the 14th century. Along w ...

. At the peak of his power, William ruled over nine counties and twenty-three castles in Northeast Hungary, and the Drugeth Province was comparable with the three traditional provinces, the

Voivodeship of Transylvania The Voivode of Transylvania (german: Vojwode von Siebenbürgen;Fallenbüchl 1988, p. 77. hu, erdélyi vajda;Zsoldos 2011, p. 36. la, voivoda Transsylvaniae; ro, voievodul Transilvaniei) was the highest-ranking official in Transylvania wit ...

, the

Banate of Slavonia Ban of Slavonia ( hr, Slavonski ban; hu, szlavón bán; la, Sclavoniæ banus) or the Ban of "Whole Slavonia" ( hr, ban cijele Slavonije; hu, egész Szlavónia bánja; la, totius Sclavoniæ banus) was the title of the governor of a territor ...

and the

Banate of Macsó The Banate of Macsó or the Banate of Mačva ( hu, macsói bánság, sr, Мачванска бановина) was an administrative division (banate) of the medieval Kingdom of Hungary, which was located in the present-day region of Mačva, in ...

in its size, the number of counties and forts and its institutions. Both Charles I and William Drugeth died in 1342. The new monarch

Louis I Louis I may refer to: * Louis the Pious, Louis I of France, "the Pious" (778–840), king of France and Holy Roman Emperor * Louis I, Landgrave of Thuringia (ruled 1123–1140) * Ludwig I, Count of Württemberg (c. 1098–1158) * Louis I of Blois ( ...

– under the influence of their opponents – decided to abolish the Drugeth Province, confiscating the overwhelming majority of the wealth of the

Drugeth family The House of Drugeth was a powerful noble family (of French origin) of the Kingdom of Hungary in the 14th to 17th centuries whose possessions were located in the northeastern parts of the kingdom. The ancestors of the family left Apulia (Southern ...

and also depriving them from political power.

Leadership

Central administration

;Lords of the province ;Judges of the Court of Vizsoly ;Treasurers of the province } .. hu, "Apród" István , , , - , Gery "the Italian" , , 1330 , , la, Gery Gallicus, hu, "Olasz" Gery , ,

References

Sources

* * * * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Drugeth province Drugeth family Geography of the Kingdom of Hungary 14th century in Hungary 14th century in Slovakia 14th century in Ukraine 1315 establishments in Europe 1342 disestablishments States and territories established in 1315 14th-century establishments in Hungary