Kostel under the last Langenmantl’s

Abstract

We researched the circumstances at Kostel manor under the last landlord of the family Langenmantl in the late 17th century. By using some archive sources for the first time, we described the property of landlords and rebellions of their peasants in Kostel. Our archive data are in surprisingly perfect agreement with Valvasor’s Ehre. Besides that, close connections were found between the Kostel legacy inventories and the recent excavations at the Kostel castle, and between Langenmantls books and books of his contemporary landlords preserved at the National and University Library of Ljubljana.