Adam, Bishop of Nyitra

Adam (Hungarian: Ádám; died after 1249) was a Hungarian Catholic prelate in the 13th century, who served as Bishop of Nyitra (today Nitra, Slovakia) at least from 1244 to 1249.

Adam
Bishop of Nyitra
Installed	1241/1244
Term ended	1249/1253
Predecessor	James
Successor	Nicholas
Personal details
Died	after 1249
Nationality	Hungarian
Denomination	Catholic Church

Career

Adam was elected Bishop of Nyitra sometime after the first Mongol invasion of Hungary. His predecessor James was killed in the Battle of Mohi in 1241. Adam is first mentioned as a suffragan in June 1244.^[1] Upon the instruction of King Béla IV, he registered a certain noble Ders as the new owner of the land Dubnica in Nyitra County (present-day a borough of Bojnice, Slovakia) in November 1244. Prior to that, Ders was forced to hand over his estate Parna in Pozsony County, and was granted Dubnica as a compensation. Adam instructed his cathedral chapter (a place of authentication) to determine and record the boundaries of Ders' new estate.^[2] Adam's role in the process reflects the transitional situation between the disintegration of the pristaldus (bailiff) institution and the still undeveloped practice of the homo regius (king's man) institution in the middle of the 13th century.^[3] Adam assumed a similar role in December 1244.^[2]

Adam registered Andrew Hont-Pázmány to the ownership of Mánya (Maňa) was lying under Turóc Castle (also known as Znió or Zniev, present-day near Kláštor pod Znievom, Slovakia) in April 1249.^[4] Adam is also mentioned among the witnesses by the establishing charter of Turóc Abbey in 1252. However its interpolated list of dignities reflects a situation from the year 1248, which thus does not prove that Adam held the position even in 1252.^[1] Nevertheless, the next bishop Nicholas first appears in contemporary records in 1253.^[1]

References

1. Zsoldos 2011, p. 93.
2. Szentpétery 1927, p. 237.
3. Kurecskó 2000, pp. 334–335.
4. Szentpétery 1927, p. 272.

Sources

• Kurecskó, Mihály (2000). "A nyitrai káptalan hiteleshelyi tevékenysége a kezdetektől 1269-ig [The Activity of the Nyitra Chapter as a Place of Authentication from the Beginnings until 1269]". In Piti, Ferenc; Szabados, György (eds.). "Magyaroknak eleiről". Ünnepi tanulmányok a hatvan esztendős Makk Ferenc tiszteletére (in Hungarian). Szegedi Középkorász Műhely. pp. 329–347. ISBN 963-482-500-1.
• Szentpétery, Imre (1927). Az Árpád-házi királyok okleveleinek kritikai jegyzéke I. kötet 2. füzet, 1001–1270 [A Critical Register of Royal Charters from the House of Árpád, Vol. 1. No. 2.] (in Hungarian). Magyar Országos Levéltár.
• Zsoldos, Attila (2011). Magyarország világi archontológiája, 1000–1301 [Secular Archontology of Hungary, 1000–1301] (in Hungarian). História, MTA Történettudományi Intézete. ISBN 978-963-9627-38-3.

Catholic Church titles
Preceded by James	Bishop of Nyitra 1244–1249	Succeeded by Nicholas