Beke Vásári (; died after 1344) was a Hungarian courtly knight in the 14th century, who administered the

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and its namesake castle (present-day ruins near

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) with the title ''

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'' of " Szilágy" in 1344. He was the last castellan of Aranyos, who held this title. Vásári was born into a

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, which possessed landholdings around their estate centre Vásári in

Bihar County Bihar was an administrative county (Comitatus (Kingdom of Hungary), comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary and a county of the Eastern Hungarian Kingdom and Principality of Transylvania (1570–1711), Principality of Transylvania (since the 16th c ...

. His parents were Nicholas I, the

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from 1319 to 1320, and an unidentified sister of Archbishop

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. His brothers were

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, an influential prelate and diplomat in the Hungarian royal court, and fello courtly knights John I and

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.Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Vásári 1. Rupolújvári) Beke is mentioned by a sole contemporary record in 1344, when his elder brother Nicholas, who resided in the papal court then, asked

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to permit him and his brothers, John, Thomas and Beke, to pilgrimage to the

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with the accompaniment of each 10 persons. Vásári also requested the pope to grant the right of

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to the parish church in their residence Vásári, dedicated to

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. Beke had a son, Thomas II, who was provost of Szenttamás in 1349, under the guidance of his influential uncle Nicholas. As Beke was not mentioned by his brother in 1349, when made similar request to the pope, like five years earlier, it is presumable he was deceased by then.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Vasari, Beke 14th-century Hungarian people

Beke Beke may refer to: * Beke (surname), a surname * Beke language, an Eastern Sudanic language of Darfur * Beke people, the descendants of the early European settlers in the French Antilles * Beke, Amasya, a village in the Amasya Province, Turkey * B ...