Kinizsi vár
Kinizsi vár, or the Nagyvázsonyi vár, was built for a practical kind of power: controlling routes while commanding a valley from a hill. The fortress sits near the source area of the Vázsonyi-Séd stream—today renamed along the way as the Eger-patak—and it rises from the Vár utca downward toward that water. In the mid-1390s, the building effort became tightly linked to a dynastic decision. Vezsenyi László—Anjou Maria’s *étekfogómester*, her keeper of the table service—left the ongoing work of Zádor-vár and chose Vázsony as a new seat. Though he received royal permission as early as 1384, the existence of the project is reflected in charters two years later, when the paperwork begins to catch up with construction. In the first decades of the 15th century, the Vezsenyi noble family completed the core works, including a 25-metre-high residential tower. …
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