chancellery, chancellery spelling
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The circle of persons who specialised in the written part of legal and administrative cases, which was organised into a corporation, office. The head of this office was the chancellor, whose original task was to seal the charters and keep the signet, which proved the authenticity of the charter. In Europe the chancelleries of secular chief princes were formed from the royal chapel, following Carolingian examples. Later leaders of the chancelleries were prelates. In Hungary the chancellery separated from the royal chapel during the reign of Béla III, and since the 14th century its leader was usually the Archbishop of Esztergom. Since the late Árpád age there were different offices within the chancellery, with different signets. From 1371 till 1464 there were separate main and secret chancelleries, then they were united in again. The chancellor was considered a baron, but as he was a priest he was not a real baron. From the end of the 14th century he belonged to the group of main judges of the country.
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chancellery spelling
A writing with Latin letters used after adopting Christianity. Fist of all it was based on the contemporary Hungarian pronunciation of the Latin language. At first it showed a lot of hesitations since the Hungarian language had different sounds from those of the Latin and because of the different foreign influences. Starting from the 13th century the royal chancellery and credible places, which dealt with issuing charters, tried to develop and unify it. The developped chancellery spelling became firm in the 14th century. The main points in it are the following: various sounds (u and ü, o and ö) were signified by the same sign, using double letters and compound signs (for example, ch, ny, ew).
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