Bulcsú (or Vérbulcsú; died 10 August 955) was a Hungarian

chieftain A tribal chief or chieftain is the leader of a tribe, tribal society or chiefdom. Tribe The concept of tribe is a broadly applied concept, based on tribal concepts of societies of western Afroeurasia. Tribal societies are sometimes categori ...

, one of the military leaders of prince

Taksony of Hungary Taksony (, also Taxis or Tocsun; before or around 931 – early 970s) was the Grand Prince of the Hungarians after their catastrophic defeat in the 955 Battle of Lechfeld. In his youth he had participated in plundering raids in Western Euro ...

, a descendant of

Árpád Árpád (; 845 – 907) was the head of the confederation of the Magyar tribes at the turn of the 9th and 10th centuries. He might have been either the sacred ruler or ''kende'' of the Hungarians, or their military leader or '' gy ...

. He held the title of horka. He was one of the most important figures of the

Hungarian invasions of Europe The Hungarian invasions of Europe ( hu, kalandozások, german: Ungarneinfälle) took place in the 9th and 10th centuries, the period of transition in the history of Europe in the Early Middle Ages, when the territory of the former Carolingian Em ...

. During these military campaigns, the Magyars threatened much of Western Europe; therefore a common saying at that time was ''"A sagittis Hungarorum, libera nos Domine"'' (Lord, save us from the arrows of the Hungarians") Modena, 925 CE . After his army had lost the disastrous

Battle of Lechfeld The Battle of Lechfeld was a series of military engagements over the course of three days from 10–12 August 955 in which the Kingdom of Germany, led by King Otto I the Great, annihilated the Hungarian army led by '' Harka '' Bulcsú and the ch ...

in 955, he was caught by the German victors and executed.Csorba, Csaba. ''Árpád népe'', Tudomány – Egyetem, Kulturtrade Kiadó. Budapest, 1997.

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