Ladislaus Nevnai ( hu, Nevnai László, hr, Ladislav de Neona; died after 1324) was a Hungarian nobleman and landowner in
Slavonia
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at the turn of the 13th and 14th centuries. Through his daughters, he was an ancestor of the powerful
Treutel and
Garai families.
Biography
Ladislaus originated from the Zala branch of the extended
''gens'' (clan) Péc, which had large-scale possessions in several counties of
Transdanubia
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Administrative divisions Trad ...
, in addition to other parts of the
Kingdom of Hungary
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. He belonged to the so-called Ludbreg sub-branch, founded by his grandfather
George Péc. His father was Serfesd, who was referred with the surname Nevnai after his residence Nevna (or Névna), present-day
Levanjska Varoš in
Croatia
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. His uncles were
Denis Péc
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, a powerful baron and
Palatine of Hungary
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in the second half of the 13th century, and Peter Ludbregi, who owned
Ludbreg
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History
For centuries Ludbreg has been a popular pla ...
.
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Péc 1. Zala branch)]
Nevnai first appears in contemporary records in 1284. He married Yolanda Kórógyi, who came from an influential noble family.
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Kórógyi family)] She is mentioned by a sole document in 1290, when she was granted the castle of
Orjava (today Orljavac, Croatia) from her father Gregory Kórógyi. Nevnai held estates in Valkó and
Pozsega Counties, and was considered one of the richest landowners of the region. He fathered two daughters, Catherine and an unidentified girl. Their marriages to
Nicholas Treutel and Andrew Garai, respectively, have prompted the rise of the Treutel kinship and the Palatinal branch of the Garai family. Nevnai's grandsons, among others, were the powerful barons
Nicholas Garai and
John Treutel.
[Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Genus Dorozsma 4. Garai alatinalbranch)][Engel: ''Genealógia'' (Treutel kinship 1. Treutel de Nevna family)] Nevnai handed over his estate of Nevna to his son-in-law Nicholas Treutel in 1324 (Catherine inherited
daughters' quarter The daughters' quarter, also known as filial quarter ( hu, leánynegyed; la, quarta filialis), was the legal doctrine that regulated the right of a Hungarian nobleman's daughter to inherit her father's property.
Origins
One of the laws of the ...
within this). It is presumable, he died shortly thereafter without male descendants, ending the Nevnai family line after two generations.
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13th-century Hungarian people
14th-century Hungarian people
Péc (genus)