### clergyman, Master Ladislaus
Clergyman People in the church hierarchy, who had privileges from the beginning of the Middle Ages. As part of the family of the bishop they did not belong under the legislative power of secular courts. Hinkmar from Reims and Adalberon from Laon gave positions to clergyman in the social-political structure, too, and developed a theory, according to which the group of clergyman is the first order, standing above the working peasants and fighting nobility. The new meaning of the Latinised version of the original Greek word clericus developed from the beginning of the 11th century. It referred to the person, who could write and compose charters in the possession of the knowledge of the Latin language, so he performed duties in writing as a clerk in royal and prelate courts. The first such person was Guest Fulco in Hungary. SzK Master Ladislaus As a royal clergyman he studied law at the university of Bologne. From 1262 he became member of the chapter of the Esztergom cathedral, till 1274 he was the dean of Hont. Besides this he was a clerk in a chancellery in 1263, and King Béla IV's minister to the newly elected Pope Clement IV. From 1275 he was the prepost of the chapter till his death in 1288. On 23 March 1277 he made his will about his movable and landed property, in which he enlisted several books. SzK