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The Travels of John Babonić: The Mobility of Slavonian Noblemen in the Fourteenth Century

Sveral episodes from the life of Lord John Babonić, a nobleman from medieval Slavonia — now part of Croatia — vividly depicts how one member of an aristocratic family was obliged to undertake two journeys within a rather short period of time. This immediately raises certain questions ; was it common among the Slavonian aristocracy to travel so often? The main goal of this article is to discuss the influence of travel on the lives and careers of members of the higher nobility in the medieval Kingdom of Slavonia in the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries. In order to do this, this article will discuss several issues connected with the mobility of this group. It will first consider the motivations for travel and its frequency. How often did a nobleman travel in a given year? Can his journeys be connected with a particular season of the year? Can they be connected with his political position within the royal administrative apparatus? Moreover, in what period of life was a nobleman the most mobile? How far did he go? How long did his travels last? What was the impact of a nobleman’s travel on his family, as well as on his servants and on the people in his proximity? What did a nobleman do on his travels? This article will address these questions through a case-study of a single nobleman who lived and travelled in the late-thirteenth and early-fourteenth centuries.

Middle Ages, nobility, mobility, John Babonić, Slavonia

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