Dávid Bélaváry

Dávid Bélaváry de Szikava (born c. 1580) (szikavai és Bélaváry Dávid in Hungarian; David Belevari/Belavary in Latin; Давид Шикован-Біловарі [David Shykovan-Bilovari] in Ukrainian) was a diplomat and high official of the Kingdom of Hungary during the seventeenth century.

Dávid Bélaváry
President of the Chamber of Upper Hungary
In office 1621–1629
Preceded by	Menyhért Rajner
Succeeded by	Zsigmond Péchy
Prefect of Prince Gabriel Bethlen
In office 1620–1629
Personal details
Born	circa 1580 Kingdom of Hungary
Died	Kingdom of Hungary
Profession	economist, politician

Biography

Member of the Bélaváry family, he is the son on György Both Bélaváry de Szikava and Fruzsina Vizkelety. Dávid is quoted in 1600 as the prefect and judge of the court (udvarbíró) of several places, as the house of the Archdiocese of Esztergom in Körmöcbánya.^[1] In 1604, he attended István Bocskai during the anti-Habsburg uprising (1604–1606).^[2] He was also governor of Galgocz and Likava and governor of the domains of the primate of Hungary (cited in 1618 and 1620).

He appears in the entourage of Prince Gabriel Bethlen in 1619 and becomes January 23, 1620 the administrator of his property and income (universorum bonorum administrator). Thereby Dávid Bélaváry is the prefect of the prince, his economic policy maker and his economic expert in Upper Hungary.

An influential councillor, he became in 1621 the president and administrator of the Chamber of Upper Hungary (also called "Chamber of Szepes" or "Chamber of Kassa") - supreme institution for the finances and economy of Upper Hungary - until the death of Bethlen in 1629.^[3] Delegated commissioner of his Excellency, he is quoted as "supreme prefect of the Chamber, councilor and supreme prefect of the region of cis- and ultra Tybiscanus" (camerae supremus praefectus, consiliarius necnon omnium artium cis and ultra Tibiscanorum supremus praefectus in Latin). As example the region of Cis-Tybiscanus including the following counties: Abaujvariensis, Bereghiensis, Borsodiensis, Gömöriensis, Hevesiensis et Szolnok mediocris, Sarosiensis, Scepusiensis, Tornensis, Unghvariensis and Zempliniensis.^[4]

He was lord of Vörösvár, Kovászó, Bene, Konaszo, etc.

References

1. Századok, Vol. 137, Numéros 3 à 4, Akadémiai Kiadó, 2003 : "Bélaváry Dávid 1600-tól az esztergomi érsekség körmöcbányai házá nak az udvarbírája"
2. 1000ev.hu and Corpus Iuris Hungarici, 1779, art. 43-44, anni 1618, page 699
3. "Kassay kamara elnöke", in Kárpátaljai Magyar Könyvek, Kovács Elemér, 2009 link Archived 2016-03-03 at the Wayback Machine
4. "Consiliarii David Belavarÿ camerae Cassoviensis ac Bonorum ejusdem Cis-Tibiscanorum Præfectus, ex parte Sui Serenitatis delegate Commissarii", "1627 V 19 Vertrag von Tokaj" ("Hauptvertrag und Zollkonvention")

• Elemér Kovács: Szőlészet, borászat, Beregvidéken, Kárpátaljai Magyar Könyvek 192, Budapest, 32. (2009) ISBN 978-963-9814-26-4
• Marcel Burchard-Bélavary : Story of the Burchard-Bélaváry family ("Histoire de la Famille Burchard-Bélavàry"), Éd. Berger-Levrault & Cie, Nancy, 1906; La Hulpe, Bruxelles, 2001