„... IN SUA PROPRIETATE LOCO VOCATO NITRAVA CONSECRAVIT ECCLESIAM“. K VÝPOVEDNEJ HODNOTE NAJZNÁMEJŠEJ VETY STREDOVEKÝCH SLOVENSKÝCH DEJÍN

The article deals with the informative value of a sentence from the The Conversio Bagoariorum et Carantanorum from 871, which is the only source documenting the connection between Pribina and Nitra. The sentence “Cui quondam Adalrammus archiepiscopus ultra Danubium in sua proprietate loco vocato Nitrava consecravit ecclesiam” has long raised doubts about its authenticity, as it does not fit into the narrative of the 11th chapter of the source. Thus the study addresses three key questions, namely whether this sentence was originally a marginalia, in which manuscript the sentence about Nitrava first appeared, and whether there are reasonable reasons to question the credibility of this sentence. Based on a very detailed analysis, it is clear that the sentence was indeed originally a marginalia, on which there is, after all, a relatively broad consensus in historiography, including Slovak. First the sentence probably appeared as a marginalia in the original manuscript. As for reasonable reasons to question the credibility of this information, it is very likely that Pribina’s Nitra origin was a historical fact.