Adam Feldvarija
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Adam Feldvarija (Serbian: Адам Фелдварија; c. 1640- after 1718) was a councillor of the Serbian Patriarch Arsenije III Crnojević during the Great Turkish War.[1][2]
Biography[edit]
Among the Serbs from Komárom during the Great Migration of the Serbs in 1690, Adam Feldvarija stood out as a close associate of the patriarch. He comes from a famous Serbian noble family from Komáron, originally from Dunaföldvár on the right bank of the Danube, downstream from the islands of Čepeľ.[3]Like the family members of Jovan Monasterlija and Feldvarija, they found themselves in Komárom at a time when numerous Serbian families moved there from Srpski Kovin at the beginning of the 17th century.[3]
Adam Feldvarija grew up in a strictly Serbian Orthodox family in Komárom before they moved to Sombor. His ancestors were chamberlains and the first to get the Hungarian aristocratic title and coat of arms from King Matthias, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna on 3 May 1609 Vicentije Rac-Feldvari and his wife Dorothea (née Jakšić), followed by Gavrilo Rac-Feldvari (Feldvari Gabor Rac). The Austrian ruler Ferdinand III confirmed on 29 October 1646 the earlier family nobility to the son of Vicentije Feldvari, the chamberlain, and Oberweid Nikola Feldvari (Adam Feldvarija's grandfather) in Pozun. According to a preserved record from the 1740s, Nikola Feldvari re-built the Serbian church near the Komárom fortress, though later demolished due to the expansion of the German part of the settlement. He married Suzana Rajković, also of Serbian nobility. After Nikola died, she married Petar Monasterlija, the parents of Jovan Monasterlija, the vice-voivode of the Serbian nation in the Habsburg Monarchy.
Archival records show that Adam's grandfather Nikola Feldvarija sat before artists to have his likeness portrayed on two occasions. The first time in 1646 on a copperplate engraving, and the second time in 1649 for a large portrait, in which he was dressed in the colorful clothes of a nobleman. It also featured his family's coat of arms. Before that, he rebuilt his town's Serbian Orthodox church, located near the fortress. By order of the commander of the Puhajm garrison, "On 20 May 1648, the Germans destroyed that church and expanded the city in that area, and the Serbs are to build a new church". Adam, Nikola Feldvarija's grandson, was an educated man, nicknamed "deacon". The nickname belonged to all those who graduated from the Latin school.
In the time before the Great Migration of the Serbs, as well as in the times that followed in the struggle for privileges, Adam Feldvarija became widely known among the Serbian people in Austria, he obtained privileges for Komárom from Emperor Leopold I. Serbian Patriarch Arsenije III Crnojević came to Komárom in June 1690 on his way to pay a visit to Leopold I in Vienna court.
Adam Feldvarija enjoyed the great trust and respect from Patriarch Arsenije III Crnojević, which can be concluded from their correspondence following the patriarch's transfer to Szentendre.[4]At the suggestion of Adam Feldvarija, the patriarch, with the consent of Emperor Leopold I, proclaimed Jovan Monasterlija a lieutenant duke (vice voivode). In 1692, Feldvarija was elected bishop of the Christian Council at the Serbian Orthodox Synod, which remained uninterrupted for the next 26 years.
Feldevarija participated in the work of multi-national-church councils such as Baja (1694), Krušedol (1708), Hopovo (1713), and Dalj (1718).[4]
Coat-of-arms[edit]
The noble coat of arms of the Feldvari family: on the blue field of the shield stood, on the green ground, a warrior in uniform with a red attire (short coat decorated with a braid) and a gold cloak, in red trousers and yellow boots, with a furry brown hat and a red tassel. In his hands, he held a taut bow with an arrow pointed to the right. A golden lion rose from the helmet with the crown above the shield, with a sword in his right paw and a severed Turkish head in his left paw. The coat of arms of Nikola Feldvari differed from the previous family coat of arms only in the type of crown. The same coat of arms was on the signets of Sombor senator Nikola Feldvari (1780) and his son Danilo (1831).
The Hungarianized toponymic surname of the Feldvari family indicates its older origin from Feldvar (today Dunafeldvar), a settlement on the right bank of the Danube in Tolna County (120 km north of Sombor), from where it moved to Komárom around 1606, after the end of the Great Turkish War when Komoran inhabited by Serbs from Srpski Kovin (Rackeve) and the surrounding area. The old surname of this family was Jarosavljević, as indicated by the inscription on the scroll found in the drawer of the decorative shackles of the icon of the Most Holy Mother of God in Hilandar, which was made in 1643. (The scroll must be slightly older than the time of formation of the decorative fittings). At the beginning of the scroll, the family of Gavrilo (Hungarianized to Gabor) Feldvari, the commander of the chamberlain or captain of the Danube Krs(č)ka Jarosavljević, is mentioned for the sake of mention, some other Serbian champions from Hungary had two names each - Serbian national and Hungarian in the same document with another name as Rac-Janos, Hadnadj Vekerdjanski, and the old surname of the Serbian family Budai was Letić). The record mentions Feldvari's, ie Jarosavljević's father Vraneš, and mother Božić, grandfather Radul and grandmother Andjelija, and great-grandfather Grgur, and great-grandmother Andjelija. The citation of three previous generations of this family indicates that its ancestor (Jarosav) lived, at the latest, in the second half of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century. The record also mentions Gavrilo-Gabor's (Krsko's) wife Ana Vranković, with father-in-law Ognjan and mother-in-law Katarina. Gabor or Gavrilo Feldvari (recorded as Feldvari Rac Gabor) was appointed in 1629 as the chamberlain of Šajkaš (Danube) and lieutenant (later also captain) and in 1638 he was named the Shajka Oberweid. He held that position until 1652.
In the next generation, an important person of this chamber family was Nikola's descendant (most likely grandson) Adam Feldvari, who, on behalf of Patriarch Arsenije III Čarnojević, first left alone, and then with Bishop Isaija Đaković in 1690 went on to negotiate with Emperor Leopold I to obtain Serbian privileges. Even before the Great Migration of the Serbs, Adam Feldvari, as a learned man and a respectable citizen of Komoran, together with his fellow citizen (probably a cousin), Jovan Monasterlija obtained privileges for Komoran Serbs from Emperor Leopold I, who once belonged to Serbian Kovin.
The same Diakovich and Adam Feldvari von Komárom, as envoys of the Serbian-Rascian nation, obtained permission as early as 24 March 1691 to appoint a Vice-Voivode (Vice Ductorem) for the Serbian nationals serving the Emperor. that's when the appointment went to Jovan Monasterlija.
Between 1692 and 1718. he is also the "church father" (epitrope, manager or guardian of the church property) of the Orthodox Church in Komoran, and the epitrope of this church was, from 1725 to 1733, George Feldvari.
Nikola's other descendant was Jovan, the ancestor of the Feldvari family from Sombor. About John (I), the information is preserved that in the Orthodox Church in Komoran, between 1719 and 1733, he was occasionally a "church son" (or tutor, one who takes care of the church's income and carries a "tray" before the faithful for their contributions). He was the father of Jovan (II) and Nikola (II) Feldvari, who immigrated to Sombor. John (II) also had sons John (III) and Nicholas (III).
Chamberlains[edit]
The chamberlains were from respectable bourgeois families. In addition to wealth, they possessed moral virtues and were well educated. At the time recorded in the Protocol, the longest in this position were: Petar Kapelet (1659-1692), Adam Faldvarija (1692-1718), Jovan Stanković (1718-1726), Đorđe Feldvarija (1726-1734), Petar Marković 1734-1738), Đordje Stanković (1738-1744), Petar Marković (1744-1748), Jovan Fejervarija (1748-1765) and Lazar Pešti (1765-1773).
See also[edit]
- Pera Segedinac
- Stefan Prodan Šteta
- Pavle Nestorović Deak
- Jovan Popović Tekelija
- Toma Kolašinović
- Antonije Znorić
- Todor Rupić
- Subota Jović
- Novak Petrović
References[edit]
- ↑ Parallelsacht.: Srbi na Slovensku. Kultúra. 1999. ISBN 9788671031516. Search this book on
- ↑ Srbi u Mađarskoj-Ugarskoj do 1918. Search this book on
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 "[Projekat Rastko] Ljubivoje Cerovic: Srbi u Slovackoj".
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 Davidov, Dinko (1990). Споменици будимске епархије. ISBN 9788607004805. Search this book on
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