### baron, tsar
baron (Old High-German baro = free) It means the main office holders of the country in Hungary during the Middle Ages. Originally the county ispáns [bailiff] and in a wider sense bishops also belonged to this group. But since the reign of Louis the Great only the palatine, the Transylvanian voivode, the state judge, the bans of Slavonia, Dalmatia-Croatia, Macsó and Szörény, the chief office bearers of the court and the ispán [bailiff] of Pozsony and since the middle of the 15th century the ispán [bailiff] of Temes, belonged to the group of barons. The King presented these offices for a period of time (defined by him), they were uninheritable, but from the 15th century the honorary titles belonging to these offices and later the title 'baron' became inheritable. Simple noblemen differed from barons, as they went to war with their own battelion, their oath was worth the oaths of 10 noblemen. 100 noblemen were needed to take an oath against them and the legal due of their their widowers was 100 marks. TI tsar A Slav title of the ruler, coming from the Latin word caesar. First it was used by Simon I, Bulgarian chief prince (893-927). TI