György Lépes (1375 – 18 March 1442,
Marosszentimre) was a Transylvanian Catholic Bishop.
Life
Lépes was born in what is now
Arad County
Arad County () is an administrative division ( judeţ) of Romania roughly translated into county in the western part of the country on the border with Hungary, mostly in the region of Crișana and few villages in Banat. The administrative center ...
to a noble family. He was the provost of Transylvania between 1403 and 1417, and was bishop from 1427 to 1442. In 1436, he invited
James of the Marches as an inquisitor against the spread of the
Hussite movement. In 1437, the
Budai Nagy Antal revolt
The Transylvanian peasant revolt ( hu, erdélyi parasztfelkelés), also known as the peasant revolt of Bábolna or Bobâlna revolt ( ro, Răscoala de la Bobâlna), was a popular revolt in the eastern territories of the Kingdom of Hungary in 14 ...
broke out because of Lépes' regulations that ordered the serfs to pay the tithe in the new currency of golden coins 3 years after the peasants had silver coins (worth four times more), and also wanted to order the Orthodox Romanians to pay it. The 1438 uprising was brutally crushed by the nobles, and the three estate nations (Hungarian,
Székely Székely may refer to:
*Székelys, Hungarian people from the historical region of Transylvania, Romania
**Székely Land, historic and ethnographic area in Transylvania, Romania
* Székely (village), a village in northeastern Hungary
*Székely (sur ...
, and
Saxon
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peoples whose name was given in the early Middle Ages to a large country (Old Saxony, la, Saxonia) near the Nor ...
) concluded with the
Union of Kápolna. In 1442, Lépes, while leading the fighting against the Turks at the
battle of Hermannstadt, was killed.
Further reading
* Bokor József (szerk.)
Lépes ''
A Pallas nagy lexikona
''A Pallas nagy lexikona'' (''Pallas's Great Encyclopedia'') was the first Hungarian encyclopedia which was not a translation from other languages.
It was published by the Pallas Literary and Press Corporation between 1893 and 1897. The encyclo ...
''. Arcanum: FolioNET. (1893–1897, 1998.). Hozzáférés ideje: 2009. szeptember 27.
References
* ''Magyar életrajzi lexikon'
II. (L–Z). Főszerk. Kenyeres Ágnes. Budapest: Akadémiai. 1969.
Főszerk. Diós István; szerk. Viczián János. Budapest: Szent István Társulat. 2002.
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1375 births
1442 deaths
15th-century Roman Catholic bishops
Gyorgy