Foreword / Janos M. Bak -- The "Lesser Nobility" -- Seventeen Hundred Case -- Genus and Generatio -- Historical Anthropology -- A Note on Genealogical Terminology -- Werboczy as a Frame of Reference -- The Tripartitum and Reality -- Werboczy's System -- The Kindred -- Father and Guardian -- The Mother -- The Offspring -- The Ancestral Estate -- Una Eademque Nobilitas -- In the Light of the Records -- A Military Elite -- The Landowner -- Marriage -- The Solidarity of the Noble Kindred -- The Right of Free Disposition and Limited Grant -- Prefection -- The Self-government of the County -- The Elefanthy Kindred -- History -- Origins -- Between Matthew Csak and the Angevin King -- A New Generation -- The Fifteenth Century -- Reproduction -- Marital Strategy -- The Estate -- Giving and Using Names -- Military Service and Familiaritas -- The Church and the King -- The County -- Stratification -- Saturation and Impoverishment -- Familiaritas as a Strategy