The study surveys the source places connected to the origin of the family and indicates the fact how the tradition was formed out within the family according to which Vecellin - a German adventive who has defeated Koppány - was the ancestor of the family. The bigger part of the study - employing new sources and aspects - is dealing with the genealogy and estates of the two main branches of the family in Vas County (the Pornó and the Ják branches) that founded monasteries. The study republishes - according to the 1240 transcription - the text of the royal document dated in 1221 that permitted the incorporation by Szentgotthárd of the monastery at Pornó. This till now has only been known from a 18^th century transcription. Identifies the estates mentioned in the document and follows their history, interprets the legal background of the royal permission and seeks an explanation for the founding intentions of the Ják monastery. Draws a more detailed picture about the monastery founder, reeve Márton, his functions, family relations as well as the emoluments of the Ják monastery and the activity of reeve Márton's sons and grandchildren.
 
 

          The disintegration of the Árpád-Age fortress reeveships was caused by several simultaneous factors' joint effect. In the case of the fortress reeveship of Vas - having relatively fair sources - the process can be well followed. The date of the occurrence can be determined with a great certainty. On the strength of the data being at our disposal we can state that the reeveship was still functioning in 1270 but it has not by 1327. In this more then a half of century all the events were appearing that can substantially be associated with the disintegration of the fortress organisation. The last great wave of the estates' bestowment, the ennoblement of a lot of serfs, the people of the castle reeveships entered in private familia, granting privileges for the guest settlers (hospites) living in the centre of the castle reeveships as well as the bestowment of the castle reeveships.
 
 

          The study, (the original of which has been published in 1989 in German), overviews the issue of the official fiefs - the so-called "honors" - of the 14^th century Hungary taking as example the Vas County (i. e. the Vas County Reeveship). It tries to prove that the royal estates of the county in that time were ruled by the current county reeves who benefited from the profits of these estates as usufruct until he held that office. He directed the estates through appointed castellans - one of them was also the vice-reeve of the county and they all were familiars of the reeve. The rich sources in Vas County provide numerous excellent examples for the operation of the institutes of honors.
 
 

          We survey in our study those parish churches that were built in the first two centuries of the Árpád-Age and whose building date we can determine with the help of archaeological means (or with these means too) and according to these the building date falls on this period. For this purpose the first grip we found in the date of the burials' commencement. This is the start of using the graveyard or the date of giving up the old graveyard - considered pagan - of the given settlement. Among these 11^th and 12^th-century religious buildings there are the following parish-churches: the "Szent Márton" (St. Martin) at Szombathely "Szent György" (St. George) at Ikervár, "Szent Vencel" (St. Vencel) at Sorokpolány, "Szent György" (St. George) at Ják, the "Keresztelõ Szent János" (St. John the Baptist) at Mester-Intapuszta, the "Szent Vid" (St. Vid) at Velem, the "Szent István" (St. Stephen) at Csepreg-Szentkirály as well as a parish-church - name unknown - at Celldömölk.
 
 

          The Middle-Age parish network of Vas County is still a white spot on the map of the Middle-Age Hungarian church history. The Middle-Age churches presented here have the common characteristic that they did not attain the Catholic restoration in the 17^th-18^th century, the great (re)building era of the Church but they were devastated or, while loosing their function, they vanished at the end of the Middle Ages or at the beginning of the Modern history. (The contemporaneous sources benamed these ruins as "plain temples" or "plain saint churches".) These ruined churches may provide basis for reconstruction and periodization of the Middle Age parish-network and settlement network of the county.
 
 

          The author has worked up more than 160 Árpád-Age fortresses in the three Western-Transdanubian counties. His most important result is that between the Árpád-Age so-called "unknown history" or "one-data" fortresses and the "historical" or "classical" fortresses a sharp contrast can be found. The first ones are former, thus they can be called "preclassic". The "preclassic" fortresses are smaller and are located lower, more close to the settlements. These are the typical buildings of the nobility. Their appearance - similar to the neighbouring Austrian areas - has already begun in the 11^th century. The mass-spread period of the type took place in the 13^th century.
 
 

          Although on the area of Vas County - similar to other Transdanubian counties - not all the characters can be found, the inscriptions of the stone relics found here have a special epigraphic importance. The gothic maiuscula typefaces of the tombstone fragments from Gutatöttös reveal the classic, elegant form of this type. The gothic minuscula typeface executed with background deepening technique on the tombstones of Miklós Szécsi and his wife, Ilona Garai at Szentgotthárd are the - perhaps - most important specimens on national level. The Jurisics tombstone's inscription is considered as a rarity in Transdanubia not only because of its German typeface but because of its German language as well. Considering its finishing it can be connected to the neighbouring Austrian areas.
 
 

          The ethnographer is dealing with the "tanárok" (roughly: "ditch") word that belongs to the categories of "village fence" and "willage gate" as well as with the phenomenon represented by it. He relates about the origin of this word and provides a research-history overview about its interpretations. He publishes a detailed data collection on the occurrences of the "tanárok" in Vas County and then, he compiles a map with the help of the geographical name collections of other Transdanubian counties (Zala, Somogy, Baranya) about this phenomenon. Finally, according to his data, formulates a daring hypothesis that the word would be of a heathen, sacral origin and sometimes denoted the sacred place of the village.
 
 

          In the modern material of our archives numerous Middle-Age documents' texts survived in transcripts and copies that could not be found in the Hungarian National Archives' Middle-Age collection (DL, DF), thus they were unknown to the researchers. Hunting up these documents could be of a great use for the Middle Age and Modern Age researchers. The ten published documents were preserved in two early Modern Age documents of the Chernel Family archives stored in the Abbot General Archives at Pannonhalma. Their publication contributes with new data to the locality and social history of Vas and Sopron counties' frontier area in late Middle Age and casts light on the way the noble Chernel Family of Chernelháza got rich.