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Peter III Csák
Peter (III) from the kindred Csák ( hu, Csák nembeli (III.) Péter; d. before 1350) was a Hungarian noble, who served as master of the horse between 1314 and 1317.Engel 1996, p. He was the ancestor of the Dombai noble family.Kristó 1986, p. 203. Biography He was born into the Trencsén branch of the ''gens'' Csák as the second son of Stephen II. He had three siblings: Mark II, Stephen III and a sister, who married Roland III Rátót, son of palatine Roland II Rátót. Peter III had three sons: Ladislaus, Peter IV and Dominic, who took the Dombai surname.Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Csák 6., Trencsén branch 1.) After the death of their father, Peter and his brother, Mark II attended the second coronation of Charles I on 15 June 1309, continuing Stephen's political orientation.Kristó 1986, p. 131. According to a royal charter in 1326, Charles I retook Csókakő ( Fejér County), Bátorkő, Csesznek ( Veszprém County) and Gesztes ( Komárom County) castles and the belo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Fejér County (former)
Fejér (in Latin: ''comitatus Albensis'') was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was slightly smaller than that of present Fejér county, today in central Hungary. The capital of the county was Székesfehérvár. Geography Fejér county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Veszprém, Komárom, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and Tolna. It lay southwest of Budapest, around Székesfehérvár. The river Danube formed most of its eastern border. Its area was 4129 km2 around 1910. History Fejér county arose as one of the first comitatus of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century. Székesfehérvár, as a seat for the coronation of the Hungarian monarch and location of royal burials, held a central role in the Middle Ages. The Solt region, east of the Danube river, which used to be part of Fejér county, went to Pest-Pilis-Solt county in 1569. In 1945, the city of Érd and its surroundings went to Pest county, while in 1950 th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tolna County (former)
Tolna ( la, Comitatus Tolnensis) was an administrative county of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was about the same as that of present Tolna county, is now in central Hungary. The capital of the county was Tolnavár and later Szekszárd. Geography Tolna county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Somogy, Veszprém, Fejér, Pest-Pilis-Solt-Kiskun and Baranya. The river Danube formed most of its eastern border. Its area was 3537 km² around 1910. History Tolna county arose as one of the first comitatuses of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century. Part of Hungary was in the 1500s taken and controlled by the Ottoman Empire during the ruling of Suleiman the Magnificent. Demographics 1900 In 1900, the county had a population of 253,182 people and was composed of the following linguistic communities: Total: * Hungarian: 172,967 (68.3%) * German: 77,293 (30.5%) * Serbian: 1,011 (0.4%) * Slovak: 735 (0.3%) * Croatian: 369 (0.2%) * Romanian: 1 (0.0%) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dombóvár
Dombóvár (german: Dombowa; la, Iowia) is a town in Tolna County, Hungary. Twin towns – sister cities Dombóvár is twinned with: * Kernen im Remstal, Germany * Ogulin, Croatia * Vir, Croatia * Höganäs, Sweden Notable people * Ján Golian (1906-1945), Slovak Brigadier General and one of the most important figures of the Slovak National Uprising The Slovak National Uprising ( sk, Slovenské národné povstanie, abbreviated SNP) was a military uprising organized by the Slovak resistance movement during World War II. This resistance movement was represented mainly by the members of the ... * Zoltán Tildy, Jr. (1917-1994), photographer Gallery File:Hunyadi tér, jobbra a Jókai utca torkolata, háttérben a Járásbíróság épülete. Fortepan 17574.jpg, Dombóvár in 1935 File:Művelődési Ház (egykor Korona Szálló), ifjúsági klubtalálkozó résztvevői. Fortepan 6687.jpg, Students in Dombóvár, 1975 File:Vasútas portré, 1973. Fortepan 9182.jpg, Dombó ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Komárom County
Komárom (Hungarian: ; german: Komorn; la, Brigetio, later ; sk, Komárno) is a city in Hungary on the south bank of the Danube in Komárom-Esztergom County. Komárno, Slovakia, is on the northern bank. Komárom was formerly a separate village called . In 1892 Komárom and Újszőny were connected with an iron bridge and in 1896 the two towns were united under the name city of Komárom. The fortress played an important role in the Hungarian Revolution of 1848 and many contemporary English sources refer to it as the Fortress of Comorn. History Following the Hungarian conquest of the Carpathian Basin at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries, Prince Árpád gave Komárom and the Komárom county vicinity to tribal chieftain Ketel. Ketel was the first known ancestor of the famous Koppán (genus) clan. At the beginning of the 12th century, this tribe founded the town's Benedictine Monastery in honor of the Blessed Virgin, mentioned in 1222 by the name of Monostorium de Koppá ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Várgesztes
Várgesztes (german: Gestitz) is a village in Komárom-Esztergom county, Hungary Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Pannonian Basin, Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to the east and southeast, Serbia to the .... External links Street map (Hungarian) Populated places in Komárom-Esztergom County Hungarian German communities {{Komarom-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Veszprém County (former)
Veszprém was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary. Its territory, which was smaller than that of present Veszprém county, in western Hungary. The capital of the county was Veszprém. Geography Veszprém county shared borders with the Hungarian counties Vas, Sopron, Győr, Komárom, Fejér, Tolna, Somogy and Zala. It covered the Bakony hills, the eastern tip of Lake Balaton and the region southeast of the lake. The river Marcal formed its western border. Its area was 3953 km² around 1910. History Veszprém county arose as one of the first ''comitatuses'' of the Kingdom of Hungary, in the 11th century. The city Siófok, which used to be in Somogy county before the 1850s, went back from Veszprém county to Somogy county before World War II. After World War II, the territory of Veszprém county was again modified: a small region west of Pápa, which used to be part of Vas county, and the northern shore of Lake Balaton, which used to be part of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Csesznek
Csesznek (; german: Zeßnegg, hr, Česneg, sk, Česnek) is a village in Zirc District Zirc ( hu, Zirci járás) is a district in north-eastern part of Veszprém County. ''Zirc'' is also the name of the town where the district seat is found. The district is located in the Central Transdanubia Statistical Region. Geography Zirc D ..., Veszprém (county), Veszprém county, Hungary. The village is known for its medieval castle. Etymology The name comes from Slavic languages, Slavic ''čestnik'' – a privileged person, an office bearer, nowadays also an elder family member at the wedding. History The medieval castle of Csesznek was built around 1263 by the Jakab Cseszneky who was the Swordbearer (ceremonial), swordbearer of the King Béla IV. He and his descendants have been named after the castle Cseszneky (surname), Cseszneky. Between 1326 and 1392 it was a royal castle, when Sigismund, Holy Roman Emperor, King Sigismund offered it to the House of Garai in lieu of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kőszegi
John Kőszegi ( hu, Kőszegi János; died after 1327) was a Hungarian influential lord in the early 14th century, who served as Master of the horse from 1311 until 1314. He inherited large-scale domains in Slavonia and Transdanubia in 1310. After 1314 or 1315, he became an ardent enemy of Charles I of Hungary, who defeated him in 1316 and 1317, resulting in the collapse of his province within months. He was the ancestor of the Tamási family. Family John was born into the powerful Kőszegi family around 1280 as the son of Henry II Kőszegi and his unidentified wife, the daughter of Palatine Mojs II. He had two siblings, Peter the "Duke", the ancestor of the Herceg de Szekcső family, and a sister, who married into the Venetian patriarch Morosini family.Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Héder 4. Kőszegi nd Rohoncibranch) His three sons – Nicholas, Peter and Henry – bore the Tamási surname since 1339, when they first appeared in contemporary records. The Tamási family desce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles I Of Hungary
Charles I, also known as Charles Robert ( hu, Károly Róbert; hr, Karlo Robert; sk, Karol Róbert; 128816 July 1342) was King of Hungary and Croatia from 1308 to his death. He was a member of the Capetian House of Anjou and the only son of Charles Martel, Prince of Salerno. His father was the eldest son of Charles II of Naples and Mary of Hungary. Mary laid claim to Hungary after her brother, Ladislaus IV of Hungary, died in 1290, but the Hungarian prelates and lords elected her cousin, Andrew III, king. Instead of abandoning her claim to Hungary, she transferred it to her son, Charles Martel, and after his death in 1295, to her grandson, Charles. On the other hand, her husband, Charles II of Naples, made their third son, Robert, heir to the Kingdom of Naples, thus disinheriting Charles. Charles came to the Kingdom of Hungary upon the invitation of an influential Croatian lord, Paul Šubić, in August 1300. Andrew III died on 14 January 1301, and within four mon ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roland II Rátót
Roland (II) from the kindred Rátót ( hu, Rátót nembeli (II.) Roland; died 1307) was a Hungarian baron at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. He was one of the seven barons in the early 14th century, who were styled themselves Palatine of Hungary. He was the ancestor of the Jolsvai family. Family Roland II was born into the influential and prestigious ''gens'' (clan) Rátót, as the son of ''magister'' Leustach II. His grandfather was Dominic I, who was killed in the Battle of Mohi in 1241. Roland II had a brother Desiderius I (also "the Blind"), who served as ''ispán'' of Borsod and Gömör Counties, and married a daughter of oligarch Stephen Ákos, establishing an alliance between the two powerful kindreds. Roland had four sons from his unidentified wife. Through his eldest son, Desiderius II, he was the ancestor of the Jolsvai (previously Gedei) noble family, which became extinct in 1427. His two younger sons, Leustach IV and Roland III held various ispánates ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
