The Noble Mikšić Family of the Levča Kindred to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century

U radu se govori o povijesti plemićke obitelji Mikšić iz Turopolja, od njezine pojave u vrelima sredinom 14. do početka 16. stoljeća. Događaji iz njezine prošlosti nastoje se staviti u društveni kontekst te se kroz primjere iz života ove obitelji progovara o različitim vezanim pitanjima, poput izdvajanja pojedinih obitelji iz plemićkih rodova, posjedovnih odnosa, nasljednih prava, položaja žena.The article follows the history of the noble Mikšić family from Turopolje from its appearance in the sources in the middle of the fourteenth century to the beginning of the sixteenth century. The events of the family’s past are discussed in wider social context and in that manner the examples from the family’s history are used to illustrate different aspects of life and changes within the society which happened in that period. Taking into the account that the Mikšić family was one among the oldest noble families of the noble community of Turopolje, on its example the process of the extraction of particular families from noble kindreds of the area. On their example is visible how they from the family which is still fully integrated into the noble kindred transform into the family operating independently from that kindred, simultaneously integrating itself more and more firmly into the noble community of Turopolje. The article speaks about their estates, the ways in which they acquired them, conflicts they led because of them, common property owning and rights of relatives regarding property of immobile goods. Particular attention is awarded to inheritance rights and position of women and the attention drawn on the right of female members of the family on a part of family estates. The article deals also with offices hold by particular Mikšići within the noble community of Turopolje and the role they played there. The genealogy of the family in the period under discussion is also established in the article