1347 · 1355 · 1364 First on parchment — as a nuisancePrvý raz na pergamene — ako problém

The castle's first certain appearance in writing, in 1347, is a royal telling-off: King Louis I ordered the castellans de Makauicha to stop threatening the Thekule family's property at Smilno and to stop luring their serfs onto the Makovica estate, and in the same year told them not to obstruct the burghers of Bardejov. A charter of 1355, drawn up when the Thekules were still demanding their land back, names both the castle and the village of Zborov "with its chapel and its mill" — so the village was already decades old. In 1364 the whole thing passed in hereditary tenure to Peter Cudar of Olnod, together with the tolls of Bardejov and Gaboltov. The Cudars added the estates of Radoma, Kurima and Stročín and turned Makovica into one of the largest lordships in the country: by 1427 it held 46 settlements and 1,321 households, of which Zborov itself had 35.Prvý istý písomný výskyt hradu z roku 1347 je kráľovské pokarhanie: Ľudovít I. prikázal kastelánom de Makauicha, aby prestali ohrozovať majetok Thekulovcov v Smilne a prestali lákať ich poddaných na makovické panstvo, a v tom istom roku im nariadil neprekážať mešťanom Bardejova. Listina z roku 1355, vydaná v čase, keď sa Thekulovci ešte domáhali svojej pôdy späť, menuje hrad aj dedinu Zborov „s kaplnkou a mlynom“ — dedina teda mala už desaťročia za sebou. V roku 1364 získal celé panstvo do dedičnej držby Peter Cudar z Olnodu spolu s mýtami v Bardejove a Gaboltove. Cudarovci k nemu pripojili panstvá Radoma, Kurima a Stročín a urobili z Makovice jedno z najväčších dominií v krajine: v roku 1427 mala 46 osád a 1 321 usadlostí, z toho v Zborove 35.