According to the data from the Glagolitic registry books of the parish of Brbinj and documents from the State Archive in Zadar, the Records of the Captain of Zadar, and data from the Franciscan cadastral survey for Brbinj, I concluded that the Kaštelanić family are a branch of the Mikljanjev or Miklanić family of Brbinj, and below I give the reasons for such a conclusion.

In the register of marriages of the parish of Brbinj from 1760, a note was entered about the marriage "between Ivan son of Šimun Miklanić called Kaštelanić and Ursa Banova from Savar and between Matia daughter of Šimun Lukšić and Mara of unknown parents", the witnesses were Anton Masnov and Luka "žakan" Španolov.

In the register of births of Brbinj parish in 1761, the birth of Lorenco was recorded, a son,  of Ivan Kaštelanov "deto" (called) Miklanić and Matie Lukšić, and in 1766 the birth of his daughter Ivana Kaštelanov "deto" (called) Miklanić and Matija Lušić.

In the book of confirmations of Brbinj parish in 1752, the confirmation of Jakov was recorded, son of Šimun Kaštelan "deto" (called) Miklanić and the deceased Ursa Banova from Savar in the same year of Chrismation of Kate daughter of Šimun Miklanić Kaštelanin and Ursa Gaćinova from Iž.

According to the alphabetical register of the municipality of Brbinj from 1879[1] Miho Kaštelančić resides in Polača in Ravni Kotari, he is probably a relative of Mihovil Kaštelanić, a priest from Brbinj who, according to Bianchi, Zara Cristiana, was the pastor in Polača from 1771 to 1815 and the pastor in Tinj, a place west of Polača in period from 1820 to 1830. And the priest Ante Kaštelanić was the parish priest of Polača from 1840 to 1863, and his origin was discovered by Grozdana Franov Živković in the 12th volume of the series Monumenta Glagolitic Archidioecesis Iadertinae[2] when she lists the surnames recorded in the matricula of the Bratovština ss. Kuzma and Damjan from Polača in Ravni kotari. Among the surnames in Polača is the surname Kaštelanić/Kaštelanac, where he states that, according to the custom of the time,[3], the parish priest of Polača, don Miho Kaštelanić, brought his family from Brbinj with him to the village. His nephew Šime Kaštelanić married Matija Peraić in Polača, from which marriage Ante Kaštelanić was born on June 16, 1800, who became a priest.

The origins of the priest of Polača, don Miho Kaštelanić, can be found in the register of births of the Brbinj parish from 1738, when the birth of "Micovil", the son of Šimun Kaštelanin and Ura Švorinova from Iž, was recorded, the godfathers were Pere Kalcinić from Žman and Klara Mirkov. Don Pavao Kero, who listed the priests and pastors in the parish of Polača, states for Miha or Mijo Kaštelanić, among other things, that he was born in Brbinj, that he is a member of the Skula ss. Kuzma and Damjan in Polača, that in 1765 he became a member of the Brotherhood of the Assumption in Biograd, a member of the School of St. Duha in 1806, around 1790 he was enrolled in the School of St. Sundays in Božava[4]. For Ante Kaštelanić, pastor of Polača in the period from 1830 to 1855, don Pavao Kero writes that he was born in Polača to father Šime and mother Matija Peraić. His father Šime was born in Brbinj, and Kero assumes that Šime was the nephew of don Miha Kaštelanić, who was a parish priest in Polača for a long time, so that he met Matija Peraić when he was visiting his uncle in Polača, married her and had a son Ante[5].

The priest Mihovil Kaštelanić is indicated in several documents, mostly of a property nature, that I managed to find in the State Archives in Zadar, and his nephew Simon is also mentioned. Maklanich Castellanich (Šime Miklanić Kaštelanić).

 In the Records of Zadar captains, which are kept in the State Archives in Zadar, there is a document from 179?? in which Castellanich D  Micchele is called alias Miklianich and his nephew Simon Miklianich Castellanich[6], which also indicates that the Kaštelanić family are actually Mikljanovi or Mikljanić family, that is, a branch of this family from Brbinj.

About the Mikljanjev family, don Leonard Riko Finka writes in his unpublished manuscript Chronicle of the Brbinj parish that the older people of Brbinj told him that the Mikljanjev were the wealthiest family in Brbinj, allegedly on one occasion their paper money got wet, so they dried it: "It is said that the Mikljanić family were rich and that they were drying money on the porch (I guess they got wet?)" [7].

I found the first mention of the surname Kaštelanin in the Glagolitic registries of Brbinj parish in the register of marriages in 1714, when Stipan Kaštelanin appears as a witness. The following year, in 1715, Stipe "from Kaštel" appears again as a witness.

In the register of births, the surname Kaštelanin begins with Ivo, the son of Šimun Kaštelanin and Ursa Švorinova from Iž. Descendants of Šimun Kaštelanin and Ursa Švorinova are Kaštelanić.

The Book of the State of the Souls of Brbinj Parish provides clearer evidence that the Kaštelanić family are only one branch of the Miklanić or Mikljanjev family.

The surname Mikljanjev can still be heard from the older residents of Brbinj, although, as far as I know, there are no more people with the surname Mikljanjev or Miklanić. Today, the ruined house of the Mikljanjev family still stands in Brbinj, between the Hujnov and the Grgin family houses. As far as I know, in Brbinj it is not considered that the Kaštelanići are actually a branch of the Mikljanjes.

In the list of the state of souls, one of the versions of the surname Kaštelanić (sometimes spelled as Kaštelanić, Kaštela, Kaštelan, sKaštela, Kaštelanka, Kašteli) appears for the first time in 1708, when Ele Kaštelanka is entered between Manda Španolov and Ela Macinov. In previous years, taking into account the position of the name entry, this Ela was entered with the surname Miklanić. In the list of men, Šime Miklanić was entered between Ivo Macinov and Ivo Rančić, and in the years before 1705, Ive Miklanić was entered in that place in the list of men. In the list of the state of souls from 1658 until 1674, Jure Mikleić or Mihelić was entered in the place where Kaštelanić family members were later entered. In 1674, the death of Jure Mizlić at the age of 80 was recorded in the death register. In 1709, Šime Miklanić, Stipe Miklanić and Ive Miklanić were registered between the Španjol and Rančić families, while in 1710, Šime Kaštelan, Ive Kaštelan and Stipe Kaštelan were registered between Bubin (Španjolić) and the Oblak family. In 1709, Mate Miklanić and Ive Miklanić and Šime Miklanić and Tome Miklanić were also registered from Miklanić, and in 1710 Mate, Ive and Vice Miklan and Šima Miklan and Toma Miklanić, between Cvitulić and Tucić, i.e. today's Longino, i.e. the Hujnov and Grgin family, so in a place that corresponds to the site of the ruined house of the Mikljanjev, which still exists today in Brbinj. Of the women, Jle Miklanev and Kate Miklanev were registered in 1709 and Jle Kaštelanka, Manda Miklanića and Kate Miklaneva in 1710.

In 1711, Ive Kašteli, Šime Kašteli and Stipe Kašteli, Mate Miklanić, Ive Miklan, Vice Miklan and Šime Miklan and Tome Miklanić were registered, and from the wives Ela Kaštela and Mara Miklanić and two more women with the surname Miklanić whose personal names i could not read.

In 1712, Šime sKaštela, Ive sKaštela and Stipe sKaštela were registered, between the Bolognja and the Rančić family members, and again between the Cvitulić and the Hujnov family members, Vicko Miklanić, Mate Miklanić and Ive Miklanić, and after the Hujnov, Tome Miklanić, and after him were registered Tucić family members (today's Grgini).

From these data, it can be concluded with a fair degree of certainty that the surname Kaštelanić originated from the place where a branch of the Mikljanjev family lived in Brbinj, namely the Soppe family's castel, which still stands today, albeit in a ruined state, in the Jaz cove. Sometimes the members of this family are marked with the surname sKaštela (from Kaštel), which is very indicative. The first Kaštelanić in the Glagolitic registers could be Jure Mihelić (Mikelić) who, according to available data, should have been born around 1596. Did he move to Kaštel from the Mikljanjev family house in Japrk, or did another branch of the Mikljanjev family from Kaštela come to Japrk? My assumption is that the Mikljanjev came to Kaštel from Japrk, because it is assumed that Kaštel dates from the 16th century[8], and the Mikljanjev are probably an older family in Brbinj since the 16th century.  

It can also be concluded that the second branch of the Mikljanjev family (probably two separate families) lived in the area between today's Hujnov and Grgin family houses, so where the ruin that is known today in Brbinj to have belonged to the Miklanjev family still stands. From the older people of Brbinj[9] I learned that in the immediate vicinity of the ruined house of the Mikljanjev family, there was also another smaller house of the Mikljanjev.

For the exact location of the Mikljanjev and Kaštelanić houses, after all, like for all Brbinj families in the 19th century, the most suitable source is the Register of Building Plots in Brbinj[10], thus part of the Franciscan cadastre. This register was made in 1847, as it says on the register itself, and it contains a list of the owners of building plots, i.e. houses in Brbinj and, what is very important, the numbers of those building plots.

This second branch or branches of the Mikljanjev family were represented by Mate and Ive Miklanić and Tome and Šime Miklanić. There are interesting entries in the register of marriages of Brbinj parish related to Mate and Ivan Miklanić, who both married in 1711, Mate Miklanić to Mara, wife of the late Ivan Matulić from Dragove, and Ivan, son of Mate Miklanić, to Ela, daughter of the late Ivan Matulić from Dragove, so father and son from Brbinj for mother and daughter from Dragove. In the same year 1711, Vice Miklan, for whom I could not find birth information in the register of births of Brbinj parish, appears in the list of the state of souls alongside Mata and Ivo Miklanić or Miklan. Is Vice the son of Mara, the widow of the late Ivan Matulić from Dragove, now the wife of Mate Miklanić?

It is interesting that Mate, Ive and Visko Miklanić are marked with the surname Vikarij in the list of the state of souls in 1713.

As for the branch of Tome and Šime Miklanić, although they had children, especially Tome Miklanić, it seems that their male line did not survive. Namely, when you look at the Register of building parcels from 1824, Martin and Gio Mikljanjev are mentioned villagers in Mikljanjev. In the registers of Brbinj parish we can find information about the parents written in Latin, so Martin is the son of Osip Mikljanjev and Jivanica Ivančev, and Gio is the son of Šime Mikljanjev and Matija Mirkov. When these data are compared with the data from the Glagolitic register of marriages, we learn that Osip Mikljanjev is actually the son of Jure Peričin, because in 1783 in the register of marriages of Brbinj parish, a marriage was entered "between Osip son of Jure Peričin and between Ivanica daughter of the late Šime Brunac". [11], and that Šime Mikljanjev is also the son of Jure Peričin, who married Matija, daughter of Mate Mirkov, in 1782[12]. So, in this branch of the Mikljanjev family, probably at the end of the 18th century, the two sons of Jure Peričin, Osip and Šime, came to the Mikljanjev family estate and took over the surname Mikljanjev.

At the end of the 18th century, the Peričin family members came to the Mikljanjev estate, but before that, at the end of the 17th and the beginning of the 18th century, some male members of the Mikljanjev family went to the estates of other Brbinj families.

Mikula Miklanić and Ive Miklanić are listed between Hrišić and Zagorčić surnames in the list of souls from 1696, which is the place where the Bijakanjev family members should be listed. Mikula and Ive Miklanić were registered that way until 1702, when, between Hrišić and Zagorčić, they were registered as Mikula Bijakanev and Ive Bijakanev. It is obvious that they went to the estate of Bijakanjev family and took surname Bijakanjev.

Another member of the Mikljanjev family went to the estate of other Brbinj family. Manda, daughter of Šimun Odvitović, married Ivan son of the late Ivan Miklanić from Brbinj in 1714. This Ivan Miklanić (Mikljanjev) came to the estate of the Bahajev family because the male line of Odvitović (Bahajev) died out and he took the surname Odvitović, i.e. Bahaja, so in the register of births in 1715, 1721, 1723, 1725 and 1730, we have entries of the births of his children, who are registered as children of Ivan Bahaja and Manda. This Ivan Miklanić is probably from the Kaštelanić branch, namely, in the list of the state of souls in 1714, there is no more Ive among the Kaštelanić family members (Stipan Kaštelan and Šime Kaštelan remain), while Ive Buhaj is entered between the Kamilov and the Kaleb families, so in the place where they should be enrolled Bahajev or Odvitović.

In the Register of building parcels from 1824, Antonio and Simon Castellanich are listed. Antonio is registered as agricoltore, like all the other Brbinj residents, except the priest Rančić, while Simon Castellanich is the only one of the Brbinje residents registered as a possessor.

Simon Castellanich is probably the nephew of the above-mentioned priest Castellanich D Micchel, i.e. Kastelanić Mihovil.

Castellanich Antonio is the son of Stipan Kaštelanić and Justina Maračin from Veli Rat[13]. Antonio or Anton Kaštelanić married Kata Petrova in 1808[14]. His son Mate goes to the estate of Kamilov family, where he marries Bartula Masnova, the sister of my grandfather Bože Masnova, which is the basis of the family ties between the Masnov and Kaštelanić families. Apart from Mate, the Kaštelanić lineage is also continued by his brother Jure Kaštelanić.

[1] See above p. 11.

[2] Glagolitic matricula of Bratovština ss. Cosmas and Damian in Polača 1711 – 1808, Zadar, Permanent Exhibition of Church Art, 2013.

[3] That the thesis about the custom of a parish priest who is not from his parish bringing his family with him is correct, we can also see in Brbinj, when the parish priest Don Antun Šegota from Žman brings his family to Brbinj, which is also clear from the transliteration of the state of the souls of Brbinj parish from 1710, where in the list of women there is "mother of priests"

[4] Glagolitic matricula of Bratovština ss. Cosmas and Damian in Polača 1711 – 1808, Zadar, Permanent Exhibition of Church Art, 2013, p. XIX

[5] Glagolitic matricula of Bratovština ss. Cosmas and Damian in Polača 1711 – 1808, Zadar, Permanent Exhibition of Church Art, 2013, p. XVIII

[6] HR-DAZD-_______________

[7] Finka, Leonard Riko: Chronicle of Brbinj parish, unpublished, p. 182.

[8] Navesti izvor podatka

[9] According to the story of Antica Grgina née Pesić, who is also registered in the land register as one of the co-owners of the Mikljanje estate

[10] SIGNATURA __________________

[11] See the register of marriages of Brbinj parish in 1782.

[12] See the register of marriages of Brbinj parish in 1783.

[13] See the register of births of Brbinj parish in 1788.

[14] See the register of marriages of Brbinj parish in 1808.