{"schema":"https://ver.cy/schemas/card/1.0.0","id":"vr.tr.castellany","code":"thing-q2749147","url":"https://ver.cy/models/thing/q2749147/","name":"castellany","alternateNames":[],"kind":"thing","status":"research-draft","version":"0.1.0-research.1","language":"en","classifiers":{"family":"Thing Registry","category":"Physical world and living systems","entryKind":"thing","plane":"PHY","domain":["PHY.PLC"],"industry":[],"navPath":"","tags":[],"facets":{}},"whatItIs":"A castellany is a historical territorial jurisdiction centred on a castle and administered by a castellan or equivalent officer on behalf of a lord or ruler.","purpose":"Enable an agent to recognise a castellany as a historically situated castle-associated territory or jurisdiction, assess evidence for its extent and authority, and make qualified comparisons across time.","scope":{"in":["Identification of a particular castellany by historical name, regional terminology and period","Association with its governing castle or historically attested administrative seat","Documented settlements, dependencies, boundaries and territorial exceptions","Territorially applicable powers and obligations, with their holders and dates","Formation, transfer, subdivision, absorption and survival as a historical place-name","Evidence supporting or contesting each territorial reconstruction"],"out":["The castle's architecture, fabric and conservation condition","The castellan's biography, rank and office considered independently of the territory","Complete models of the encompassing kingdom, lordship or administrative system","Individual estates and property titles except where they establish castellany membership","Population histories and settlement economies beyond their relationship to the castellany"],"boundaries":[]},"distinguishingFeatures":["A candidate must have evidence of castle-associated territorial or jurisdictional identity; proximity to a castle alone is insufficient.","A reference to appointment, salary or rank must be checked for the office sense before it identifies a geographic castellany.","The castle site and the castellany must be distinguishable as seat and associated territory, even where the territory's extent remains unknown.","A castle owner's estate must not be equated with a castellany without evidence that ownership and the relevant jurisdiction coincide.","Shared names with a town, parish or later district establish a possible relationship, not identical boundaries or institutional continuity."],"structure":{"bundles":[{"id":"territorial-identity","name":"Territorial identity","description":"Determine what a castellany reference identifies within its own historical setting.","layers":[{"id":"name-and-sense","name":"Name and sense","description":"Resolve dated names and distinguish territorial usage from office terminology.","findings":[{"id":"territorial-attestation","name":"Territorial attestation","description":"Record evidence that the named castellany denotes a district or territorial jurisdiction.","questions":[{"text":"Does the passage describe land, dependent settlements or territorial jurisdiction, or only the office of a castellan?","id":"territorial-attestation-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What original spelling, language, document date and passage support this interpretation?","id":"territorial-attestation-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"castle-association","name":"Castle association","description":"Identify the castle or seat through which this territorial identity is understood.","findings":[{"id":"seat-identification","name":"Seat identification","description":"Distinguish an attested governing seat from a same-named settlement or a merely nearby fortification.","questions":[{"text":"Which castle or administrative seat is explicitly associated with this castellany, and during which period?","id":"seat-identification-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Does the evidence distinguish the castle site, its immediate estate and the wider castellany?","id":"seat-identification-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]}]},{"id":"territory-and-dependencies","name":"Territory and dependencies","description":"Reconstruct where the castellany extended and which places belonged to it.","layers":[{"id":"dependent-places","name":"Dependent places","description":"Establish membership of villages, estates and other locations without treating every association as territorial inclusion.","findings":[{"id":"dated-membership","name":"Dated membership","description":"Qualify each place's association by date, function and evidence.","questions":[{"text":"Which settlements or lands are explicitly included, and is their relationship administrative, judicial, fiscal or military?","id":"dated-membership-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What document and historical place identification support each membership assertion?","id":"dated-membership-q02","kind":"provenance"}]}]},{"id":"extent-reconstruction","name":"Extent reconstruction","description":"Represent documented boundaries, gaps, exceptions and competing interpretations.","findings":[{"id":"qualified-geography","name":"Qualified geography","description":"Keep source-described limits distinct from modern reconstructed geometry.","questions":[{"text":"Which limits, exclusions or detached dependencies are attested, and which are inferred by a named claimant or researcher?","id":"qualified-geography-q01","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"If geometry or area is supplied, what date, coordinate reference system, reconstruction method and uncertainty accompany it?","id":"qualified-geography-q02","kind":"measurement"}]}]}]},{"id":"castle-based-authority","name":"Castle-based authority","description":"Describe the powers exercised over the castellany and the relationships authorising them.","layers":[{"id":"holders-and-superiors","name":"Holders and superiors","description":"Identify who administered the castellany and under whose authority.","findings":[{"id":"authority-chain","name":"Authority chain","description":"Separate the castellan's administrative role from castle ownership and superior territorial authority.","questions":[{"text":"Who administered the castellany at the selected date, and what evidence establishes the appointment or entitlement?","id":"authority-chain-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"Which superior authority or overlapping jurisdiction constrained that administration?","id":"authority-chain-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"powers-and-obligations","name":"Powers and obligations","description":"Establish which functions connected dependent places to the castle administration.","findings":[{"id":"functional-reach","name":"Functional reach","description":"Record only evidenced powers and obligations, allowing their geographic coverage to differ.","questions":[{"text":"Which judicial, fiscal, defensive or maintenance functions are documented for this castellany?","id":"functional-reach-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"Did each function apply to the same places and people, or were there exemptions and separate territorial limits?","id":"functional-reach-q02","kind":"boundary"},{"text":"What evidence would justify attributing a particular levy, summons or castle-service obligation to this castellany?","id":"functional-reach-q03","kind":"action"}]}]}]},{"id":"historical-change-and-resolution","name":"Historical change and resolution","description":"Track transformation of the castellany and govern reconciliation of its historical records.","layers":[{"id":"institutional-transitions","name":"Institutional transitions","description":"Distinguish first attestation, creation, transfer, reorganisation and termination.","findings":[{"id":"continuity-through-change","name":"Continuity through change","description":"Assess whether changes preserve the same castellany or establish a predecessor-successor relationship.","questions":[{"text":"Which dated evidence establishes creation, transfer, subdivision, absorption or abolition, as opposed to first or last surviving mention?","id":"continuity-through-change-q01","kind":"provenance"},{"text":"After a change of holder, seat or territory, what supports treating the castellany as the same entity?","id":"continuity-through-change-q02","kind":"boundary"}]}]},{"id":"record-reconciliation","name":"Record reconciliation","description":"Connect documentary references, historical gazetteers and modern place identifiers without collapsing distinct entities.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-qualified-linking","name":"Evidence-qualified linking","description":"Guide merges and mappings through dated identity evidence while retaining unresolved alternatives.","questions":[{"text":"Does a proposed gazetteer or Wikidata identifier identify the castellany itself, its castle, its namesake settlement or a later district?","id":"evidence-qualified-linking-q01","kind":"definition"},{"text":"What evidence permits merging two castellany references, and which conflicting dates or dependencies require keeping them separate?","id":"evidence-qualified-linking-q02","kind":"action"},{"text":"Which conflicting reconstructions must remain attributed alternatives in the agent's output?","id":"evidence-qualified-linking-q03","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]},{"id":"evidence-and-external-alignment","name":"Evidence and external alignment","description":"What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.","layers":[{"id":"reported-evidence","name":"Reported evidence","description":"Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.","findings":[{"id":"evidence-confidence-notes","name":"Check these first","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these check these first hold for the sense of castellany this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-confidence-notes-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-real-world-use","name":"Real-world use","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of castellany this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-real-world-use-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards","name":"Failure modes and hazards","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of castellany this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-regional-variation","name":"Regional variation","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of castellany this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-regional-variation-q01","kind":"provenance"}]},{"id":"evidence-neighbours","name":"Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart","description":"Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.","questions":[{"text":"Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of castellany this model covers, and on what evidence?","id":"evidence-neighbours-q01","kind":"provenance"}]}]}]}]},"agentConduct":{"may":["Describe castellanies and their roles in medieval administration from historical sources.","Identify the castle, territory and period of a particular castellany with citations."],"mustNot":["Present a reconstructed boundary as precise when the sources are vague.","Use historical jurisdictions to support present-day territorial or property claims.","Attribute deeds to named castellans without evidence."],"requiresHuman":["Using historical jurisdiction data in legal or heritage disputes."]},"ethics":{"considerations":["Medieval jurisdictions involved forced labour and justice over peasants; history should not romanticize them.","Old boundaries are sometimes invoked in modern disputes."],"affectedParties":["Researchers and students","Local communities"]},"owners":{"steward":"Nobody now; historical archives hold the records of each castellany.","roles":[],"masterSystems":["Historical archives"]},"relations":[{"target":"Q1048835","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"},{"target":"Q56061","type":"parent","note":"registry parent class"}],"interaction":{"identity":{"applicability":"required","items":["Vercy registry: vr.tr.castellany","Wikidata: Q2749147 (https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2749147)"]},"properties":{"applicability":"required","items":["Attested territorial designation: Original term, language, spelling, dated occurrence and interpreted sense","Associated castle or seat: Identified site or sites, relationship type and validity interval; unknown permitted","Attested temporal extent: Earliest and latest attestations, explicit creation or termination dates where available, and date uncertainty","Territorial reconstruction: Settlement list, boundary description, partial geometry, reconstructed polygon or unknown; dated and source-attributed","Reconstructed area: km², with reconstruction date, coordinate reference system, method and uncertainty; unknown permitted","Jurisdictional competence: Source-attested military, judicial, fiscal or other competence, each with geographic reach and dates","Authority relationships: Castellan, delegating authority, superior jurisdiction and competing claimant, with dated roles","Historical continuity: Attested functioning, reorganised, absorbed, abolished, name-only survival or uncertain"]},"recognition":{"applicability":"required","items":["Historical maps showing territories grouped 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