Conrad (I) from the kindred Szák ( hu, Szák nembeli (I.) Konrád; died after 1269) was a Hungarian noble in the 13th century, who served as ''
ispán
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'' of
Győr County
Győr county (in Hungarian: ''Győr (vár)megye'') was an administrative county (comitatus) of the Kingdom of Hungary, situated mostly on the right (south) side of the Danube river. Its territory is now part of Hungary, except seven villages on th ...
from 1264 to 1267.
Family and career
Conrad (I) was born into the
''gens'' (clan) Szák as the only known son of Albeus.
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Szák, Várong branch)] The kindred possessed lands in
Central Transdanubia
Central Transdanubia ( hu, Közép-Dunántúl) is a statistical ( NUTS 2) region of Hungary. The capital is Székesfehérvár. It is part of Transdanubia (NUTS 1) region. Central Transdanubia includes counties of Fejér, Komárom-Esztergom, and V ...
, primarily in
Tolna and
Komárom
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 villag ...
counties, centered around the namesake estate
Szák. Conrad had two sons, John (I) and Conrad (II). The Várongi noble family, which became extinct in the first third of the 15th century, descended from John.
Conrad is first mentioned by a royal charter of King
Béla IV of Hungary
Béla IV (1206 – 3 May 1270) was King of Hungary and Croatia between 1235 and 1270, and Duke of Styria from 1254 to 1258. As the oldest son of King Andrew II, he was crowned upon the initiative of a group of influential noblemen in his father ...
in May 1240, when he already served as Cup-bearer of the Queen's Court. The document narrates that when Queen
Maria Laskarina
Maria Laskarina (c. 1206 – 16 July or 24 June 1270) was a Greek Queen consort of Hungary by marriage to Béla IV of Hungary. She was the daughter of Theodore I Laskaris and Anna Komnena Angelina.
Life
She was a younger sister of Irene Lascarina ...
gave birth to
Stephen
Stephen or Steven is a common English first name. It is particularly significant to Christians, as it belonged to Saint Stephen ( grc-gre, Στέφανος ), an early disciple and deacon who, according to the Book of Acts, was stoned to death; ...
, the firstborn son of the royal couple sometime around October 1239, Conrad hurried to the royal court in order to inform Béla IV of the birth of his son. As a result, the king donated the village of Podár in
Veszprém County
Veszprém ( hu, Veszprém megye, ; german: Komitat Wesprim (Weißbrunn)) is an administrative county (''megye'') in Hungary. Veszprém is also the name of the capital city of Veszprém county.
Veszprém county
Veszprém county lies in western ...
(today a wasteland near
Dáka
Dáka is a village in Veszprém 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 ...
) to Conrad. The land was separated from the royal caste lordship of Sopron. His relative, Herrand Szák (son of
Nicholas Szák
Nicholas from the kindred Szák ( hu, Szák nembeli Miklós; died March 1241) was a powerful Hungarian baron in the first decades of the 13th century. As a confidant of King Andrew II, he served as Palatine of Hungary from 1219 to 1222 and for a ...
) died without male descendants sometime before 1250, thus his possessions escheated to the Crown. Béla IV granted three of his former estates –
Terjén,
Gyalán and
Várong – to Conrad in April 1250, with the consent of Queen Maria. Former historiographical works incorrectly claimed that Conrad Szák functioned as Master of the stewards in the queenly court in 1253. In fact, his namesake contemporary,
Conrad Győr
Conrad (I) from the kindred Győr ( hu, Győr nembeli (I.) Konrád; 1299/1302) was a Hungarian lord in the 13th century, who served as Master of the cupbearers between around 1254 and 1260. Also known as Conrad of Óvár ( hu, Óvári Konrád) in ...
held this dignity in that year.
He served as ''ispán'' of Győr County from around 1264 to 1267. His relative, Pousa Szák bequeathed his estate in Bere (laid in present-day
Márkó
Márkó is a village in Veszprém county, Hungary
Hungary ( hu, Magyarország ) is a landlocked country in Central Europe. Spanning of the Carpathian Basin, it is bordered by Slovakia to the north, Ukraine to the northeast, Romania to th ...
) in Veszprém County to Conrad in 1269.
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13th-century Hungarian people
Conrad
Conrad may refer to:
People
* Conrad (name)
Places
United States
* Conrad, Illinois, an unincorporated community
* Conrad, Indiana, an unincorporated community
* Conrad, Iowa, a city
* Conrad, Montana, a city
* Conrad Glacier, Washington ...
Year of birth unknown
13th-century deaths