Csák (II) from the kindred Hahót ( hu, Hahót nembeli (II.) Csák; died after 1308) was a Hungarian noble, who served as
bearer of the sword ( hu, kardhordó, la, ensifer) between 1256 and 1257. He was the ancestor of the
Csányi noble family.
He was born into the Buzád branch of the
''gens'' (clan) Hahót as the son of
voivode
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Csák I.
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 293.] He held the position of head of Gora ispánate (part of
Zagreb County) in 1256.
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 155.] From 1256 to 1257, he functioned as bearer of the sword, which was a minor office in the royal court of
Béla IV of Hungary (meanwhile his father was the
master of the treasury).
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 254.] Csák II served as
ispán (''comes'') of Vrbas County between 1266 and 1269.
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 178.]
His father built the fort
Csáktornya (today Čakovec,
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) in the late 1250s. However
Ottokar II of Bohemia
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then the increasing powerful
Kőszegi family captured the clan's all castles in the following years, causing the Buzád branch's move into Center Zala. Csák II settled down in Csány (today
Zalacsány) after Ottokar's invasion, possibly he was that family member who built the local Zsidóvár ("Zsidó Castle"). The Csányi family (lit. "of Csány") ascended from there.
Csák II functioned as master of the treasury for
Elizabeth the Cuman
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, the widow of
Stephen V of Hungary in 1286.
[Zsoldos 2011, p. 75.] He was still alive in 1308.
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13th-century Hungarian people
14th-century Hungarian people